suspense (suspens)

[Formerly also sus pence; IMG:content-2566.png:[blocks in formation] (2) Scots law , a proce in the supreme civil criminal court by which execution or diligence on a sentence or decree is stayed until the judgment of the supreme court is obtained on the point. 3. That which is suspended or hung up, or that which is held up, as in a liquid. Certain very ferruginous clays under experiment, the later suspensions from which are amber-colored, change thus very decidedly and obviously from summer to winter in a ve el which is kept in the temperature of my study. Amer . Jour. Sci ., XXIX. 3. 4. The act of keeping a person in suspense or doubt.-5. In music: ( a ) The act, proce , or result of prolonging or sustaining a tone in one chord into a following chord, in which at first it is a di onance, but into which it is immediately merged by a conjunct progre ion upward or downward. The sounding of the tone in the first chord is called the preparation of the suspension, its di onant sounding in the second the percu ion, and its final pa age into consonance the resolution. Usually the term suspension is used only when the resolution is downward, retardation being the common term when the resolution is upward. (See retardation, 4 (b).) When two or more voice-parts undergo suspension at once, the suspension is called double, triple, etc. Suspension was the earliest method selected for introducing di onances into IMG:content-2567.png:[blocks in formation] ed tone to the chord in which it is di onant, and on the way in which its di onance is rhythmically emphasized. (b) The tone thus suspended.-6. In a vehicle, any method of supporting the body clear of the axles, as by springs, side-bars, or straps. Bifilar suspension. See bifilar. Critical suspension of Judgment. See critical. - Indagatory suspension of opiniont. See indagatory. Pleas in suspension, in Scots law, those pleas which show some matter of temporary incapacity to proceed with the action or suit. - Points of suspension, in mech., the points, as in the axis of a beam or balance, at which the weights act, or from which they are suspended. - Sist on a suspension. See sist. the enjoyment of income: as, a student suspended for some breach of discipline (rarely, in this use, suspended from college). Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry, and deprived of their livelihood, for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent. Bp. Sanders on. Compton, the bishop of London, received orders to sus pend Sharp till the royal pleasure should be further known. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 6. To cause to cease for a time from operation Act; or effect: as, to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act; to suspend the rules of a deliberative a embly. -7. In music, to hold back or postpone the progre ion of (a voice-part) while the other parts proceed, usually producing a temporary discord. See suspension, 5.- To suspend payment or payments, to declare inability to meet financial engagements; fail. Syn. 3. To intermit, stop, discontinue, arrest. state. Pope , Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 250. Suspence of iudgement and exercise of charitie. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iv. 14. 4. In law, suspension; a temporary ce ation of a man's right, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of po e ion of land and rent. - Suspense account, in bookkeeping, an account in which sums received or disbursed are temporarily entered, until their proper place in the books is determined. dy competent in the bill chamber of the Court of Se ion, when the object is to stop or interdict some act or to prevent some encroachment on property or po e ion, or in general to stay any unlawful proceeding. The remedy is applied for by a note of suspension and interdict.- Suspension-bridge. See bridgel. - Suspension hub. See Suspension of arms. See the quotation. If the ce ation of hostilities is for a very short period, or at a particular place, or for a temporary purpose, such as for a parley, or a conference, or for removing the wounded and burying the dead after a battle, it is called a suspen sion of arms . H. W. Halleck , International Law, xxvii. § 3. sus, pp. of suspend ere, hang: see suspense, a.] 1t. In ornith., the humming-birds or Trochili dæ: so called from their habit of hovering on the wing, as if suspended in the air, in front of flowers. Illiger, 1811.-2. In entom., a division of butterflies, including those whose chrysalids are simply suspended, not succinct: contrasted with Succinct i. II. in trans. To cease from operation; desist from active employment; specifically, to stop + -ity.] The capacity of being sus payment, or be unable to meet one's engage