suspect (suspekt)

and n.1 [ Suspect his face, suspect his word also. Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 485. suscitationt (sus-i-ta's hon), n. [F. suscita- tion = Sp. suscitacion = Pg. suscitação = It. sus cit azione, n- ), an awaken- ing, resuscitation, suscitare , pp. suscitatus, 2. Doubtful; uncertain. arouse, excite: see suscitate .] The act of arous- ing or exciting. Be not curyous to wete or knowe what thin suspect women do. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 30. Alle other suspect bokes, bot he in Engli h and in laten. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 35, The temple is supposed to be di olved, and, being so, to be raised again; therefore the suscitation must answer to the di olution. Bp . Pearson , Expos. of Creed, v. If the malign concoction of his humours should cause a suscitation of his fever, he might soon grow delirious. Fielding , Joseph Andrews, i. 13. Sordid interests or affectation of strange relations are not like to render your reports suspect or partial. Glanville. II. n.1 1. A suspected person; one suspected of a crime, offense, or the like. Whose case in no sort I do fore-judg, being ignorant of the secrets of the cause, but take him as the law takes Wilson, James L. (Nares.) Political suspects awaiting trial are not the only persons therein confined, nor are the casemates of the Trubetskoi bastion the only cells in that vast state prison. G. Kennan, The Century, XXXV. 756.