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suˈspected, ppl. a.
[f. suspect v. + -ed1.]
1. That one suspects of something evil or wrong; regarded with suspicion; imagined guilty or faulty; suspect.
1559in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. App. xi. 35 If any..disagreed from his forefathers, he is..to be judged suspected. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 150 That all thynges myght be decided by mete and no suspected persones. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 51 Noble men..that are bydden to dynner of theyr enemies or suspected frendes. 1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 138 By eating of Garlike, a man may the safelier goe into a suspected aire, and by stinking places. 1610Heywood Gold. Age ii. i, The Iron bar'd dores and the suspected vaults, The Barricadoed gates. 1615J. Manwood Lawes Forest xxiv. §5. 241 All others found in the Forest searching and going after a suspected maner. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ i. iv. §1 Their eldest Historians are of suspected credit even among themselves. a1700Evelyn Diary 16 July 1649, To..walke..with our guns ready in all suspected places. 1794Vancouver Agric. Cambr. 125, I became here a suspected person, and could obtain no information whatever. 1826G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scot. (ed. 5) I. 553 She must have..a bill of health when she sails from a suspected port. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 234 Whether the danger of trusting the suspected persons or the danger of removing them were the greater. 1861Chambers' Encycl. II. 95/1 A suspected bill [of health], commonly called a touched patent or bill, imports that there were rumours of an infectious disorder. 1914Times 30 Dec. 10/1 The search and detention of suspected ships.
2. That one suspects to exist, or to be such; imagined possible or likely.
1706Stanhope Paraphr. III. 495 Defamation does not use to stop at manifest, no, nor at suspected Vice. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. xxvii, In the character of a more than suspected traitor. 1904Verney Mem. II. 11 Sir Ralph was suddenly arrested,..by the Lord Protector's soldiers, as a suspected Royalist.
3. the suspected, a moth, Parastichtis suspecta, which has reddish-brown fore-wings and is found in Europe and northern Asia.
1908R. South Moths Brit. Isles II. 7 The Suspected... Of this species there are two groups of forms—plain and variegated. 1948W. J. Stokoe Caterpillars Brit. Moths I. 323 The Suspected... The chief British quarters of this species appear to be in Yorkshire. 1973Times 5 May 12/8 The men who christen moths must be poets. Consider some of the enchanting names of those recorded in the garden..: Heart and Dart, Flame Shoulder, Nutmeg, Common Quaker, The Suspected, [etc.].
Hence suˈspectedly adv., so as to be suspected; suˈspectedness, state of being suspected.
1609[see suspectly, quot. a 1577]. 1656Artif. Handsom. 93 Those, who..have..either undiscernibly..or suspectedly..or declaredly..used such additaments. 1658J. Robinson Stone 96 Some of Hipocrates Aphorisms..by losing their lustre, contract a suspectednesse. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 311 A many Pseudo-Cabbalists have brought the very name of Cabbala into a suspectedness. |