suspicion (suspishon)

[ E. soupçon ) = OSp. suspicion = Pg. suspeição = It. sospezione, sospizione, And for that we shall not see me that we speake at large, and doe recounte an historie verie suspicious , briefely we will touche who were they that bought this horse, and did po e e him. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 128. I spy a black, suspicious , threatening cloud. Shak, Hen. VI., v. 3. 4. In fact, Uncle Bill was Aunt Lois's weak point, and the corners of her own mouth were observed to twitch in such a suspicious manner that the whole moral force of her admonition was destroyed. H. B. Stowe , Oldtown, p. 349. Syn. 1. Jealous.-3. Doubtful, dubious. suspiciously (sus-pish'us-li), adv . 1. In a suspicious manner; with suspicion. Methought I spied two fellows That through two streets together walk'd aloof, And wore their eyes suspiciously upon us. Fletcher and Rowley , Maid in the Mill, iv. 3. 2. So as to excite suspicion. I should have thought the finished tense neither very common in the independent ju ive nor suspiciously rare in the dependent. Amer . Jour . Philol ., IX. 161.