susceptiveness

[Eng. susceptive; -ne .] The quality or state of being susceptive; susceptibility. *süs-çěp-tivi-1-ty, s. [Eng. susceptiv (e); -ity .] Capable of admitting; susceptibility. "Nor can we have any idea of matter, which does not imply a natural discerpibility and susceptivity of various shapes and modifications."- Wollaston : Religion of Nature, § 5. *sŭs-çěp'-tõr, s . [Lat.] One who undertakes; a godfather. "In our church those who are not secular persons are not forbid to be godfathers, nor are any susceptors supposed to contract any affinity, as that such an undertaking should hinder marriage between the sponsors and the persons baptized, if otherwise it be lawful."- Puller : Moderation of the Church of England , p. 281. *sus-clp-1-en-çỹ, s. [Eng. suscipien(t); -cy.] Reception, admi ion; the state or condition of being received or admitted. *sus-çip-I-ent, a. & s. [Lat. suscipiens , pr. par. of suscipio to undertake.] A. As adj .: Receiving, admitting. "[God] likewise effecting miracles superior, or contrary to the law and course of nature, without any preparatory dispositions induced into the suscipient matter." -Burrow: Sermons, vol. ii., ser. 12. B. As subst.: One who takes, receives, or admits. "For the sacraments and ceremonies of the gospel operate not without the concurrent action and moral influence of the suscipient." -Taylor : Holy Dying , ch. v., § 5. *sus-çi-ta-bil-i-tý, subst . [English suscit (ate); -ability. The quality or state of being easily roused, raised, or excited; excitability. *sŭs'-çi-tāte, v. t . [Lat. suscitatus , pa. par. of suscito : sus (for sub )=under, and cito =to incite, to rouse.] To rouse, to excite; to call into life and action. "He shall suscitate or rayse the courage of all men in clined to vertue."- Sir T. Elyot: Governor, bk. iii., ch. XXV. *sus-çi-tā-tion, s. [Lat. suscitatio , from susci tatus , pa. par. of suscito .] [SUSCITATE.] The act of raising, rousing, or exciting. "The temple is supposed to be di olved; and, being so, to be raised again; therefore the suscitation must answer to the di olution."-Pearson: On the Creed, art. 5. sûs'-lik, sõus'-lik, s. [Ru .] Zool.: Spermophilus citillus , the Sisel (q. v.). sŭs-pěct', v . t. & i. [SUSPEСТ, а.] IMG:content-0637.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0638.png:[blocks in formation] like; to be suspicious. "It shall suspect where is no cause of fear." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 1,153. sŭs'-pěct, a . . [Fr., from Lat. suspect us , pa. par. of suspicio =to look under, to admire, to suspect: sus (for sub )=under, and specio =to look.] *A. As adjective: 1. Suspected, under suspicion. "The creative genus of statesmen who fail completely, the ability of generals who are beaten, and the poetic charm of writers whom nobody reads are suspect to us." St. James's Gazette, Feb. 16, 1887. 2. Doubtful, uncertain. B. As substantive: *1. Suspicion. ( Drayton : Polyolbion , s. 24.) *2. Something suspicious; something causing or raising suspicion. 3. A person suspected; a person under suspicion of a crime, offense, . "A day or so afterward two or three suspects were arrested and clapped into prison."-London Globe. *sŭs-pěc-tą, s. pl . [Neut. pl. of Lat. suspect us , pa. par. of suspicio to mistrust.] Zool.: A sub-section of Colubrine snakes, having the fangs situated at the back of the jaw behind the common teeth. Head usually covered with shield-like plates. Some are known to be harmle , others are reputed poisonous, though it is doubtful if they really are so. Families Homa lop side, Dipsadide, and Den drop hide. sus-pěct-a-ble, *sus-pěct-i-ble, adj . [Eng. suspect; -able .] Liable to be suspected. sus-pěct-ant, spect'-ant, a . [SUSPECT, a.] Her.: Looking upward, the nose bendways. sŭs-pěct'-ěd, pa . par . or a. [SUSPECT, v .] suspected-moth, s. Entom.: A European night-moth, Orthos i a suspect a. sus-pěct-ěd-ly, adv. [ Eng.suspected; -ly.] In a suspected or suspicious manner; so as to raise suspicion. "[They) have either undiscernibly as some or suspect. edly as others, or declaredly as many, used such addittaments to their faces, as they thought most advanced the beauty or comeline of their looks." -Bishop Taylor : Artificial Handsomene , p. 93.