suspensive (suspensiv)

[F. suspens if = Sp. Pg. suspensivo = It. sospensivo, suspensivo, liberative. These few of the lords were suspensive in their judgment. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, p. 139. And in suspensive thoughts a while doth hover. J. Beaumont , Psyche, ii. 97. 2. Having the power to suspend the operation of something. In every way the better plan may be to recognise the fact that power, under a democracy, will centre in the popular a embly, and... by subjecting it to a suspensive veto. Nineteenth Century , XX. 321. We are not to be allowed even a suspensive veto. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxv. ( Encyc. Dict.) Suspensive conditions, conditions which make the commencement of a legal transaction or title dependent upon the happening or not happening of a future uncertain fact. suspensively (sus-pen's iv-li), adv. In a suspensive manner. We become aerial creatures, so to speak, resting suspen sively on things above the world. H. Bushnell, Sermons on Living Subjects, p. 56. suspensor (sus-pen's or), n. [= F. suspens eur , suspensor , suspend ere , pp. suspens us , suspend: see suspend , suspense .] One who or that which suspends. (a) In surg ., a suspensory bandage. suspensor (b) In bot., the filament or chain of cells at the extremity of which the developing embryo is situated. Also called proembryo. (c) In an at., the suspensory ligament of the liver, a fold of peritoneum by means of which the liver is attached to, as if suspended from, the diaphragm. (d) In zool., a suspensorium. suspensorial (sus-pen-sō'ri-al), a. [ suspensorium (sus-pen-sō'ri-um), n.; pl. suspensoria (-a). [NL., neut. of suspensor i us, suspensory: see suspensory.] That which suspends; a suspensor or suspender. Specifically -(a) The bone or bones forming the means by which the lower jaw is indirectly articulated with the skull in vertebrates below mammals. It is morphologically the proximal bone or proximal element of the mandibular arch, and includes the representative of the malleus of Mammal i a. In Sauropsida (birds and reptiles) it is a single bone, the quadrate; in lower vertebrates it may consist of a series of bones, or be cartilaginous or ligamentous. (See cuts under quadrate, Rana, Pythonidæ, and Crotal us.) In fishes the hyomandibular bone is the principal suspensorium. (See cuts under pal a to quadrate, Spatu Acanthocephala (Echinorhynchus cord a versing the an enter ous body-cavity, supporting the organs of generation in either sex. Also called lig amentum suspensorium. See cut under Acanthocephala. teleost.) (b) The suspensory suspensor i us (sus-pen-sō'ri-us), n.; pl. suspen sori i (-1). [NL.: see suspensory.] A suspensory muscle.- Suspensor i us duodeni, a band of plain muscular fibers connecting the lower end of the axis. suspensory (sus-pen'sō-ri), a. and n. [F.sus pensoir, suspensoire = Sp. Pg. suspensorio = It. sospensorio, IMG:content-2569.png:[blocks in formation] Cordeilla, out of meer love, without the suspicion of expected reward, at the me age only of her Father in distre , powrs forth true filial tears. Milton , Hist. Eng., i. 3. Suggestion; hint; small quantity; slight degree. [Colloq.] He was engaged in brushing a suspicion of dust from his black gaiters. Trollope, Last Chron. of Barset, xlix. A mere spice or suspicion of austerity, which made it [the weather] all the more enjoyable. Hawthorne, Our Old Home, near Oxford. =Syn. 1. Jealousy, distrust, mistrust, doubt, fear, mis giving. suspicion (sus-pish'on), v. t . [ suspicion , n.] To regard with suspicion; suspect; mistrust; doubt. [Chiefly colloq.] The folks yereabouts didn't never like him 'cause he didn't preach enough about hell, and the weep in' and wail in' and gnash in' o' teeth. They somehow suspicioned he wasn't quite sound on hell. Harper's Mag ., LXXX. 349. suspicional (sus-pish'on-al), a . [ suspicion + -al . ] Of or pertaining to suspicion; especially, characterized by morbid or insane suspicions: as, a suspicional delusion. [Recent.] She displayed the same emotional mobility and sus picional tendencies which characterized her gifted son. Alien. and Neurol ., XI. 347.