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suspicious, a.|səˈspɪʃəs|
Forms: α. 4–6 suspecious, (5, -ieuse, 5–6 -yous, 6 -ius), 5 susspecious. β. 4– suspicious, (5 -icyows, -ycyowse, 6 -ycyous, -iciouse, -yciouse, 7 -ycious); 6–7 suspitious, (6 -ius).
[a. AF., OF. suspecious, suspicious, -eus, ad. L. suspīciōsus, f. suspīcio suspicion: see -ous.
For the change of spelling cf. suspicion n.]
1. Open to, deserving of, or exciting suspicion; that is or should be an object of suspicion; suspected, or to be suspected; of questionable character.
1340Ayenb. 226 Þe uerste [þing] is him-zelue kepe and priueliche bi ine his house, naȝt uor to uolȝy þe uelaȝredes suspiciouses. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 540 Suspecious was the diffame of this man, Suspect his face, suspect his word also. 1435Rolls of Parlt. IV. 490/1 In crikes, and oyer suspecious places. 1477Cov. Leet Bk. 421 If eny suspect persone..may be founde within this Cite hauyng suspecious langage. 1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 95 Good and honest persones and trewe and not suspecious. 1526Tindale 1 Thess. v. 22 Abstayne from all suspicious thynge. 1594Nashe Terrors Nt. G iv b, The abrupt falling into his sicknesse was suspitious, proceeding from no apparant surfet or misdiet. 1634Peacham Compl. Gentl. xii. 114 All Hebrew Coynes that Antiquaries shew us are suspicious. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. viii. 34 Authors are also suspicious, nor greedily to be swallowed, who pretend to write of secrets. 1771Junius Lett. xliv. (1788) 247 This sudden alteration of their sentiments..carries with it a suspicious appearance. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xii. 130 His respiration was interrupted, suspicious, and irregular. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 551 Some most suspicious entries had been discovered, under the head of special service. 1889J. Gairdner Hen. VII, vii. (1899) 111 This Ludovico had become Duke of Milan himself by the very suspicious death of his nephew.
†b. with dependent clause, inf., or of. Obs.
c1400Rom. Rose 6110 He wole hym silf suspecious make That he his lyf let couertly..in Ipocrisie. 1527Star Chamber Cases (Selden Soc.) II. 166 All the Barnes..and other suspecyous places..to have hydde corne. 1592Greene Conny Catch. 18 Citizens..that they finde..suspitious of the like fault. 1623Meade in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 149 The news of the Prince..was suspicious not to be good. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. v. 376 'Tis suspicious..that these things might be done by confederacie. 1765T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. I. v. 436 The wife of Richard Cornish was found suspicious of incontinency. 1788Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 552 Symptoms which render it suspicious that the two empires may make their peace with the Turks.
2. Full of, inclined to, or feeling suspicion; disposed to suspect; suspecting; esp. disposed to suspect evil, mistrustful.
c1400Cato's Morals in Cursor M. App. iv. 307 Fle to be susspecious, atte þou be noȝt doutous. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 162 No man of kynde is moore suspecious, Than he that is moost vicious and coupable. 1592Kyd Sp. Trag. iii. xiv. 160 The world is suspitious, And men may think what we imagine not. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. v. §140 Such Circumstances, as should administer no occasion of Jealousy to the most Suspicious. 1735Pope Prol. Sat. 206 A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend. 1842W. Macgillivray Man. Brit. Ornith. ii. 244 This species [of gull]..is vigilant, shy, and suspicious. 1856Kane Arctic Expl. II. xv. 164, I had earned character with these people, at first so suspicious and distrustful.
b. with dependent clause, or of.
1474Caxton Chesse iv. vii. (1883) 180 The aduersaries ben suspecyous that the comyn peple lye In a wayte to Robbe her goodes. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. i. 153, I see no reason if I weare this Rose, That any one should therefore be suspitious I more incline to Somerset, than Yorke. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iv. xlvi. 379 The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes. a1721Prior Dial. Cromwell & Porter Wks. (1907) 264 You were a Slave to your own Apprehensions, suspicious of every body that came near you. 1783Johnson Let. to Taylor 24 July, I was suspicious that you were ill. 1834J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1837) I. v. 70, I am suspicious of any religion that is a people's religion. 1861Thackeray Four Georges iii. 134 Like other dull men, the king [sc. George III] was all his life suspicious of superior people.
c. transf. Expressing, indicating, or characterized by suspicion.
1478Earl Rivers Crystyne's Mor. Prov. (1859) 3 Woman & man to guider muche Rownyng May often cause suspecieuse slandryng. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 63 Whose hertes be full of ypocrisy..and suspycyous iudgementes. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxxv. 158 b, [They] condemned the wise Socrates, for the suspitious opinion they had in him. 1635Quarles Embl. v. xii. 22 How often hath Thy Hope-reviving Grace Woo'd my suspitious eyes to seek Thy face! 1745T. Randall in Transl. & Paraphr. Sc. Ch. xlix. vi, Love harbours no suspicious thought. 1797S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. (1799) I. iv. 358 [His conduct] tinctured the mind of his companion with suspicious and black ideas.
†d. Showing a suspicion or inkling of. Obs.
1655Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. §75 A..Ribbon weaver may set down a whole discourse..without knowing a letter or interweaving anything suspicious of other secret than a new-fashioned Ribbon.
3. Comb., as (in sense 1) suspicious-looking adj.; (in sense 2) suspicious-mindedness.
1843Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. 46/1 A wiry, crop-eared terrier..; one of those suspicious-looking brutes whom an honest man would shrink from claiming. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 101 A suspicious-looking mess of fish and vegetables. 1888Doughty Arabia Deserta I. 603 The suspicious-mindedness of the Arabians. |