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suspicable, a. Now rare or Obs.|ˈsʌspɪkəb(ə)l|
[ad. late L. suspicābilis, f. suspicārī to suspect, f. su- sub- 25 + spic-, as in suspicĕre to suspect.]
1. That may be suspected or mistrusted; open to suspicion.
1614Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. vi. Nadab & Abihu, Suddennesse as it is ever justly suspicable, so then certainly argues anger. 1655–87H. More App. Antid. (1712) 192 To proceed from what is plain and unsuspected to what is more obscure and suspicable. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1858J. P. Collier Shaks. Wks. (ed. 2) I. p. vii, The suspicable (if I may use the word) letter of Jonson to Secretary Cecil.
2. That may be suspected to be so; appearing probable or likely.
1651H. More Enthus. Tri. (1712) 31 It is a very suspicable matter that Saturn before the fall was where Mercury, and Mercury where Saturn is. 1653― Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 183 It is a very suspicable business that he means no more than empty Space by it. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §15. 269 This makes it still more strongly suspicable, that it was really a Design..of the Devil.
Hence † ˌsuspicaˈbility, the condition of being open to suspicion.
1660H. More Myst. Godl. v. vii. 151 The uncertainty and suspicability of the Story. |