suspendv.

c1400 Rule St. Benet (verse) 1258 Sche salbe suspend fro þe kirk, Fro mete, & fro al company.

c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees 2240 Yif he thus offende, Oute of thy presence hym vttirly suspende.

c1290 Beket 856 in S. Eng. Leg. 131 Þo seide þe bischop of wynchestre: ‘sire gilbert, beo stille! We sospendiez swuch conseil, for it nis nouȝt wurth a fille.’

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 356 Prove he his power bi þis lesse, and suspende assoiling of moneie.

1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xxxiii Though he suffer hys mercy to be communely suspendyd and temperyd wyth the balaunce of hys iustyce.

1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 48 §1 The same rentis by longe tymes shalbe suspendid and not due to be paid.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxv The Emperour doeth suspende all suites and actions in the lawe commenced againste the Protestauntes.

1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 287 The Lordis of Secreit Counsall suspendis the said Robert Lord Sempillis commissioun abonewrittin.

1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 355 The Gouernment of the naturall Brittish Kings..was for many yeeres suspended.

1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. ii. 16 External actual communion may sometimes be suspended..by the just censures of the Church.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 259 The Course of the nourishing Juice being suspended and turn'd aside.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 187. ⁋5 By dividing his time between the chace and fishery, [he] suspended the miseries of absence and suspicion.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. viii. 178 The king..suspended the payment of Peter's pence.

1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit iv. 36 All power of thinking is suspended during a swoon.

1856 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. (ed. 3) I. iv. 138 We may by a powerful effort suspend the action of the respiratory muscles during a limited time.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 217 A motion which seems not to be suspended even in the depth of winter.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. xi. 575 The end of a Prize Court is,—to suspend the property which is the subject of prize, till condemnation.

1883 Manch. Examiner 29 Oct. 5/4 The firm had to suspend payment, not from any fault of their own, but from their connection with another firm.

1885 Law Times 80 111/1 The right of the railway company to suspend the ordinary service of trains on occasions of..exceptional pressure.

1902 W. W. Jacobs At Sunwich Port i. 5 My [master's] certificate has been suspended for six months.

c1450 Godstow Reg. 94 All other every dayes hit shold be lawful to syng j masse with a lowe voyce, and the belle suspended.

1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 413 Thair Hienessis is contentit..to suspend thair handis fra all geving.

1569 T. Underdowne tr. Ovid Inuectiue against Ibis F iiij As sone as he sawe his chylde lye before him, he draue on the one syde, and suspended hys plough, and so passed without harme to the chylde.

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 13 Nothing more then disturbance of minde suspends us from approaching to God.

1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 101 The Sublime can no way..bear to be suspended in its impetuous Course.

c1750 Collins On Distant View Richmond Church iv Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore..And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest!

1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 33 Both their Sensations being too big for Utterance, their Tongues were suspended.

1836 W. S. Landor Pericles & Aspasia I. 88 There is a gloom in deep love, as in deep water: there is a silence in it which suspends the foot.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 69 Þei wolen suffre..a chirche or a chirche ȝerde suspendid & no masse seyd þer-inne.

a1500 ( Bale's Chron. in R. Flenley Six Town Chron. (1911) 120 The first day of July powles chirch was suspent and the v day folowyng halowed ageyn.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xxiii. 8 He..suspended y^e hye places, where the prestes brent incense.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Acts xxiv. A We haue founde this man..a sterer vp of sedicion..and hath taken in hande also to suspende the temple.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts x. 38 b Hytherto neuer eate I anye meate that was suspended, or vncleane [L. quicquid profanum aut impurum].

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxciiij His chaplaines before they wold saye any seruice in their churches,..hallowed them againe..as suspended and polluted with Lutheranisme.

1561 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1843) III. ii. 270 Ye Lady College Kyrk..is decernit and suspendit ane prophane hows.

1488 in Archaeologia 45 115 viij Pillowes of dyvers coloures, besides other that beth suspent & dampned for bad, as appereth in the parcellis of the suspent wares.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 42 The law positiue, It did suspend, and haldis as detestiue.

1535–6 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 10 §8 Provided also that this present acte..be..[not] taken to extincte release discharge or suspende any Statute [etc.].

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxxxiij The decree of Auspurge..he suspendeth.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii. xviii. 273 The statutes of mortmain were suspended for twenty years by the statute 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 8.

1787 Constit. U.S. i. §9 The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when..the public safety may require it.

1842 T. B. Macaulay Frederic the Great in Ess. (1877) 700 The authority of laws and magistrates had been suspended.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar v. 43 In great danger it was the Senate's business to suspend the constituion.

1419 26 Pol. Poems 71 Encresyng of temperalte Suspende spiritualte.

a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) ii. iv. 206 There is no joy..which can suspend the grief we suffer from a Finger that is Sawing off.

1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur iii. 83 Wonder almost suspends their Happiness.

1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. p. xiii Pregnancy suspends consumption.

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 142 When the small-pox appeared first, it did not suspend the measles.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 247 The agitation, which had been suspended by the late changes, speedily became more violent than ever.

1901 Electr. Rev. 27 Sept. 523/2 A breakdown of a trolley wire..temporarily suspended the service [of trams].

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 80 If it shall please you to suspend your indignation against my brother, til you can deriue from him better testimony of this intent. View more context for this quotation

1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 69 All saving truthes..must vaile bonnet, and suspend, while Romes Traditions bee serued and obserued.

1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. vii. 146 Suspend your foolish Passion about the Fellow.

1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 57 The ministers quarrelled among themselves. They disclaimed one another. They suspended violence, and shrunk from treaty.

1780 W. Cowper Nightingale & Glow-worm 3 A nightingale..Had cheer'd the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. iv. 96 Men suspended every, even the slightest external motion.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. i. 27 An old woman..for the moment had suspended her wail to listen.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lviii. 176 These thoughts, which he wanted to master and suspend.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. i. 61 Then Jordan, whose streams hitherto suspended, returned into his channell.

1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 499 The apoplectic respiration now nearly suspended.

1879 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine 459 The rain suspended long enough for us to..get fairly under way.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 6 I would..a little suspend these seuerall points, and first intreate of this matter in generall.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 493 A Regall Commission (which partly beeing some-where obeyed, and other-where suspended).

1660 R. Ellsworth in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1911) 2nd Ser. 121 Their said refuseall, if suspended or conniued att, will cause a general discontent.

1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) ii. 293 The reason of which..it is better to suspend than too critically to inquire into.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xxi. 309 The divisions of Christianity suspended the ruin of paganism.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 197 Will thy discovery of the cause Suspend th' effect, or heal it?

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. iii. 253 The bravest efforts of their gallant chiefs could not suspend their destiny.

1690 J. Child Disc. Trade i. 49 Before the Use of Money falls, which I conclude cannot long suspend.

a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) ii. f. 6^v We should not be to hastye in beleuynge the tale, but rather suspende oure iudgementes till we know the truth.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum ii. iv. 225* In doubtfull things we suspend our assent, and iudgement.

1667 W. Temple Let. in Wks. (1731) II. 27 I suspend my Confidence till the Arrival of my English Letters, which are my Gospel in these Cases.

1742 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) IV. 551 He must excuse us if we suspend our belief until we are better satisfied of the Truth of the Facts.

1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 16 The publick voice suspends its decision.

1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. iii. ii. 256 On this subject I suspend my opinion.

1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay i. 6 He felt strongly disposed to believe that his new acquaintance was thoroughly a lady, though a knowledge of life in most European capitals disposed him to suspend his judgment.

1585 Queen Elizabeth I in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1880) 29 I wer out of [my] sences if I shuld not suspend of any hiresay til the answer of your owne action.

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. iii. sig. M^v Pardon me, that's to be suspended, you are too quick, too apprehensiue. View more context for this quotation

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. ii. sig. G3^v These Ladyes are not of that close, and open behauiour, as happily you may suspend . View more context for this quotation

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 248 [They] sayd, heere Diues the rich Glutton dwelt..: this I suspend.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 102 Many things are..believed of other plants, wherin at least we cannot but suspend . View more context for this quotation

1656 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 141 Moses did not suspend that it was to be punished with death. His consultation with God was only about the manner.

1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. G Some divines teach us to believe (though I suspend,) that God himself cannot..Compel men to believing.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. Pref. That voluntary Power over our Affections and Actions, by which we deliberate, suspend, and choose.

1598 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 50 Wisshing us to suspend from embracing any other course in that kinde.

1675 M. Clifford Treat. Humane Reason 17 Reason will not presently advise us to a change,..but suspend a while and attempt again.

1675 M. Clifford Treat. Humane Reason 89 I must..stand still, that is suspend absolutely from the belief of any Religion.

1963 Listener 28 Feb. 393/2 By the time he arrived at the cliff-hanging conclusion there was nothing for it but to suspend disbelief.

1979 Amer. Notes & Queries Feb. 97/1 In suspending disbelief, poets could construct a fictitious transitional zone.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 9 To geue ourselues unto such a searching out of God, as may so holde our witt suspended with admiration [etc.].

1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events a 2 Things which delight and wonderfully suspend the minde.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 554 The harmony..Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment The thronging audience. View more context for this quotation

1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xi. 91 A Prayer of Quiet in the manner of a Spiritual sleep, which suspends the Soul so, that..we may lose much time.

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination i. 257 The village-matron, round the blazing hearth, Suspends the infant-audience with her tales.

1804 ‘E. de Acton’ Tale without Title I. 224 She sat suspended, till recollecting the box..she started.

1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso xxxii. 81 Whatsoever I had yet beheld, Had not so much suspended me with wonder [It. Di tanta ammirazion non mi sospese].

1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iv. i. 422 Thus he leaues the Senate Diuided, and suspended, all vncertaine. View more context for this quotation

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xiii. 39 We were all suspended into divers opinions.

1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love Ded. She [sc. Victory] seem'd to suspend her self, and to doubt, before she took her flight.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 288 My Thoughts were a little suspended, when I had a serious Discourse with the Spaniard.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 158. ⁋13 The intent of the introduction is to raise expectation, and suspend it.

1798 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 208 I am entirely suspended as to what is to be expected.

c1880 Kirkby (Yorks.) Dial. They were very curious to know the secret but I would not tell them. I suspended them for a whole year.

1962 Listener 27 Sept. 483/1 Dostoyevsky harrows and suspends his reader.

1650 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 27 The Decreittis, registrate Bandis, and uther Groundis of the Creditors, and Charges craved to be suspendit.

1766 Ld. Kames Remarkable Decisions Court of Session 1730–52 65 Begbie occasionally hearing that his decree was suspended, put up his protestation in common form.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. at Suspension The party complaining commences proceedings by presenting a bill of suspension..his bill concludes, that the..execution in question ought to be suspended, and therefore he prays for letters of suspension.

1698 in Sir H. Dalrymple Decisions (1792) 1 Sir John C. having charged the Earl..upon a bond of borrowed money, to pay 1000 l. Sterling, he suspended, and alleged res judicata.

1766 Ld. Kames Remarkable Decisions Court of Session 1730–52 70 William Hogg, being charged for recourse, suspended upon want of due negotiation.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 16/2 Because that the wounded partes may suspend & hange in the bellye.

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 61/2 Let not this little cloth suspend above thre howers therin.

a1687 Duke of Buckingham Upon Felton in Wks. (1705) I. 13 Here uninterr'd suspends..Felton's dead Earth.

1816 J. K. Tuckey Narr. Exped. River Zaire (1818) iii. 99 And a silk sash..suspending a ship's cutlass, finished his costume.

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xxiii. 587 It will, if freely suspended, pass beyond its position of rest to a distance on the left side.

1871 A. Meadows Man. Midwifery (ed. 2) 299 An index suspended from a cross-bar.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum xxxiv. 820 It seemeth by the Hebrew distinction ouer Iehouah, that this word is suspended from the rest which follow, so that eel is one of the epithetes rather..then a proper name of God.

1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 83 If our conuersion saluation, grace, and glorie, are thus suspended on our most impotent..wills, what man can once be saued?

1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 104 That the magistrate..should take into his own power the stipendiarie maintenance of church-ministers,..would suspend the church wholly upon the state.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 24 June 89 The present state of the skies and of the earth, on which plenty and famine are suspended.

1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxviii*. 25 It is dangerous for a man and woman to suspend their fate upon each other, at a time when opinions are fixed.

1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm x. 278 That the universal prevalence of Christianity..is suspended upon the continuance of missionary zeal.

1844 R. Choate Addr. (1878) 334 The peculiarity of this election is that while it involves all the questions of mere policy which are ever suspended on the choice of a president [etc.].

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §69. 79 Your suspending the same [sc. salvation of a baptized infant] on the Baptizer's intention.

1797 Monthly Mag. 3 260/1 They differed from the above-mentioned theologists and philosophers in this, that the latter suspended every thing from Deity.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iii. 72 That in the Temple of Serapis there was an iron chariot suspended by Loadstones in the ayre. View more context for this quotation

1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature ii. 29 That water kept suspended in a sucking Pump, is not in its natural place.

1846 R. Browning Luria iii, in Bells & Pomegranates No. VIII 13/1 The unseen sun above, That draws and holds suspended all of us—Binds transient mists and vapours into one.

1870 R. R. Coverdale Poems (new ed.) 16 A cloud in western skies Suspent, or floating on its way.

1909 C. Keyser in Hibbert Jrnl. Jan. 386 The world of things that are finite is strictly an island-world suspent in a sea.

1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 277 Spirit of Wine, singly, is not near so efficacious..as when it contains or Suspends some resinous Substance.

1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 162 There is no more carbonic acid, or scarcely more, than is necessary to keep the lime suspended.

1862 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (ed. 2) III. iii. 244 By suspending the compound of acetylene with subchloride of copper in a solution of ammonia.

1868 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 3) 108 Solution of Carbonate of Magnesia... Prepare as above, suspend in water and pass pure carbonic acid gas through it.

1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 81/1 Gold and silver inks are writing fluids in which gold and silver,..are suspended in a state of fine division.