suggest ment (sujestment)

[ suggestum (su-jes'tum), n.; pl. suggest a (-tä), as E. suggest ums (-tumz). [L., The ancient Suggest ums , as I have often observed on medals, as well as on Const an tine's arch, were made of wood, like a little kind of stage, for the heads of the nails are sometimes represented that are supposed to have fastened the boards together. We often see on them the emperor, and two or three general officers, sometimes sitting and sometimes standing, as they made speeches or distributed a congiary to the soldiers or people. Add is on , Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, L. 402). suggilt (suj'il), v . t . [ suggil lare, also sugillare , beat black and blue, hence insult, revile.] 1. To beat black and blue. Tho' we with blacks and blues are suggilld , Or, as the vulgar say, are cudgelld. S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 1039. 2. To defame; sully; blacken. Openly impugned or secretly suggilled . Strype, suggillatet (suj'i-lāt), v.t. [ L.sug gill at us , pp. of sug gill are , beat black and blue: see suggil .] Same as suggil , 1. Wiseman , Surgery. suggillationt (suj-i-lā'shon), n. [F. sugilla tion = Sp. sugilacion = Pg. sugillação , L. sugillatio (n-), suggillatio ( n- ), a black-and-blue mark, a spot from a bruise, an affront: see sug gillate .] Alivid or black-and-blue mark; a blow; a bruise; ecchymosis: also applied to the spots which occur in disease and in incipient putrefaction.