suspense account

A private account kept by a merchant or banker of sundry items which at the moment cannot be entered to the proper creditor or debtor. tsŭs-pěn-si, s . pl . [Masc. pl. of Lat. suspens us , pa. par. of suspendo =to suspend, to hang up.] Entom : Chrysalids attached by the tail only, and hanging with the head downward. This peculiarity is found in the Nymphal ide (q. v.). ( New man.) sus-pěns-1-bil-I-ty, subst . [Eng. suspensible; -ity.] The quality or state of being suspensible; capacity of being suspended or sustained from sinking. sus-pěns-I-ble, adj. [Eng. suspens (e); -able.] "Suspectle have I travel'd all the town through." Beaum. & Flet.: Island Prince , ii. 1. sŭs-pěnd', v . t. & i. [Fr. suspendre , from Latin suspendo, from sus (for sub )=under, and pen do =to hang; Sp. & Port. suspender ; Ital. suspend ere .] A. Transitive : 1. To cause to hang or depend from anything; to hang. "On the willow that harp is suspended." Byron: By the Rivers of Babylon. bench; go, gem; thin, this; chin, The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0641.png:[blocks in formation] II. Technically: 1. Law: (1) English and Roman Canon Law : A censure inflicted on a clerk or priest in orders, for remedial purposes, the effect of which is to take away from him, for a fixed time, or until he repents and makes satisfaction, the exercise of his sacred functions in his office or benefice. Suspension is of three kinds: (1) ab ordine , where a clerk cannot exercise his functions; (2) ab officio , where he is forbid den to exercise them in his charge or cure; and (3) a beneficio , where he is deprived of the revenues of his benefice, and of any control over it. Suspension is removed by absolution, revocation of the censure by the person inflicting it, expiry of time, or by dispensation. "Suspension is the sentence which even the bishop's chancellor can pronounce upon a clerk who has misconducted himself. It is a temporary punishment of the same nature as deprivation, and subject to criticism and review by the civil courts." -Mac mill an's Magazine , Nov., 1869, p. 80. (2) English Law : The temporary stop of a man's right, as when a seignory, rent, or other profit out of land lies dormant for a time, by reason of the unity of po e ion of the seignory, rent, ., and of the land out of which they i ue. 2. Music : The holding or prolongation of a note in any chord into the chord which follows, thereby often producing a discord. The first appearance of the note to be suspended is called its preparation its presence as a discord, its percu ion; its removal to a note of concord or rest in key, or some legitimate sound of a sequence, its resolution. Suspensions are named after the interval of the note forming the discord. Two suspended notes form a double suspension, three a triple suspension and so on. The intervals most commonly suspended are the fourth, sixth, seventh, and ninth. The percu ion of a discord of suspension is generally on the strong accent of a bar. 3. Eng . public schools : A name given at various schools to a form midway between the Lower and Upper divisions. 4. Rhet .: A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or what is to be the infer ence or conclusion from the arguments or observations. (1) Pleas in suspension : Law: Those pleas which show some matter of temporary incapacity to proceed with the action or suit. (2) Points of suspension: Mech.: The points, as in the axis of a beam or balance, at which the weights act, or from which they are suspended. (3) Suspension of arms : A short truce or ce ation of operations agreed on by the commanders of the opposing forces, as for the burying of the dead, making proposals for surrender, peace, .