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suspectn.1

Brit. /səˈspɛkt/, U.S. /səˈspɛk(t)/
Forms: Also Middle English Scottish -ec, Middle English–1500s -ecte, 1500s -eckte, Scottish -ek.
Etymology: < Latin suspectus, in class Latin looking up, a height, esteem, respect, in medieval Latin suspicion (after suspectus past participle, and suspicĕre ), < suspect- , suspicĕre : see suspect adj., suspect v. Compare Italian sospetto.
Obsolete or archaic.
1.
a. The or an act of suspecting, or the condition of being suspected; = suspicion n. 1.In earliest use chiefly in phraseological expressions: see esp. b, and cf. respect n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [noun]
ortrowthc1175
ortrowa1200
untrust?c1225
suspicion1303
suspectiona1340
mistrowa1375
overtrowa1375
misfaitha1382
jealousyc1385
suspectc1386
misdoubtingc1390
untrist1390
mistrowinga1393
mistrusta1393
mistrista1400
supposinga1400
untrestc1400
wantrustc1405
diffidencea1425
misdeemingc1450
untrustingc1450
discredence?a1475
surmise1509
suspensea1513
diffidency1537
distrust1548
distrusting1549
misdoubt1558
discredit1567
misgiving1582
scruple1597
disconfidence1620
inconfidence1627
disaffiance1631
non-fiance1643
defiance1662
suspiciencya1690
reservation1719
disfaith1870
méfiance1876
c1386 G. Chaucer Doctor's Tale 263 The peple anon hath suspect of this thyng,..That it was by the assent of Apius.
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 49 Þat no suspecte rise betwix vs þat myght hurte þi gude name.
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) xciii. 22 My suspect is without blame, For..other moo haue demyd the same; Thenne is it not of Jelowsye.
c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiv. 141 Thairfor fle fra suspek.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1797/2 If any of you be in suspect that..my meaning is to do..any thing wherewith the realme may haue iust cause to be discontented.
1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iii. xxxiii. sig. O2v They might hold sure intelligence Among themselues without suspect t' offend.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. i. 88 You..draw within the compasse of suspect Th' vnuiolated honor of your wife. View more context for this quotation
1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes iv. 1 When a Thiefe's appre'ended on suspect.
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xciii. sig. Aa8 By this meanes, they often bring goodnesse into suspect.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. §9 If the Holy Jesus did suffer his Mother to fall into misinterpretation and suspect.
1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 121 Without suspect they fell into the Trap Anaxocles had laid.
1881 A. C. Swinburne Mary Stuart ii. i. 71 She..avows By silence and suspect of jealous heart Her manifest foul conscience.
†b. to have (or hold) in suspect: to be suspicious of, suspect: cf. suspicion n. 2f. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > suspect, distrust [phrase]
to have, take, occasionally bear suspicion13..
to have or hold (a person or thing) suspectc1380
to have (or hold) in suspectc1386
to have supposinga1400
to enter into suspicion with1471
to have in suspicion1471
to have in jealousy1523
to smell a ratc1540
to smell a fox1599
to be or look shy on or at1837
c1386 G. Chaucer Melibeus ⁋230 Thou shalt also haue in suspect the conseillyng of wikked folk.
1493 Festivall (1515) 30 b By counseyle of the people he had the lyon in suspecte.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cclxii. 388 The vycount of Rochechourt..was had in suspect to haue tourned frenche.
1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Iohan Iohan sig. A.iii Well husbande, nowe I do coniect That thou hast me somwhat in suspect.
1615 S. Daniel Hymens Triumph ii. i Held ever in Restraint, and in Suspect.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. i. 139 Giue me assurance with some friendly Vow, That I may neuer haue you in suspect. View more context for this quotation
†c. Const. in, of, to (the person or thing about whom or which something is suspected). Obsolete.
ΚΠ
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 905 This olde poure man Was euere in suspect of hir mariage.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xlvii. 68 Wherof all the Countrey..had great suspect of treason to the Captayne.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. R.v Ther fel on him an other malady..which put..his frendes in great suspect of his helthe.
1535 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 74 Not for any defaut or suspect that I have in doctour Lee.
1638 T. Nabbes Bride (1640) i. iii. B iv Thou art base In thy suspect of her.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 264 That you may have no suspect of these my words.
d. Const. of (the evil suspected).
ΚΠ
1523 [see sense 1c].
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1388/2 I haue bene in prison thus long..upon suspecte of setting foorth the reporte thereof.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 105 She..slinketh into his companie without any surmise or suspect had of his part of any such kind of deceipt.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iii. sig. Bb4v The faire Serena..Wandred about the fields..Without suspect of ill or daungers hidden dred. View more context for this quotation
a1641 J. Webster & T. Heywood Appius & Virginia (1654) i. 2 Arraign'd before the Senate for some suspect of treason.
e. with a and plural = suspicion n. 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [noun] > instance of
suspicionc1384
suspect1541
scruple1600
umbrage1604
gain-givinga1616
inkling1620
surmise1719
1541 T. Wyatt Defence in K. Muir Life & Lett. (1963) 190 Nother goddes lawe, nor mans lawe..condemnethe a man for suspectes: but, for suche a suspecte, suche a worde or wrytinge may be so aparent..that yt may be a grevous matter.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 89 You doe me shamefull iniury, Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects . View more context for this quotation
1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 145 Behold then..how much he was giuen to false suspects and wrongfull iealousie.
1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 457 The former manner of proceeding..makes..the Writer..fall under a just suspect.
1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man v. 70 Have I had my hand to addresses, and my head in the print-shops, and talk to me of suspects!
†f. Ground of suspicion; = suspicion n. 1c.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [noun] > basis of
suspect1592
suspicion1597
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. D1v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Seeing..you also do graunt, that in all his behauiour you neuer saw so much as one suspect.
†2. Expectation; esp. apprehensive expectation; = suspicion n. 4. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun] > accompanied by fear
feara1300
suspiciona1340
dreadc1400
suspectc1400
dreadourc1540
apprehensiona1616
the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > apprehension
doubta1225
feara1300
werea1300
suspiciona1340
doubtancea1400
suspectc1400
dwerec1440
suspensec1440
doubting1486
frayed1536
doubtfulness1576
pain1582
preapprehension1628
apprehension1656
alarm1733
c1400 Rule St. Benet (Prose) 126 Hauynge euer suspect for to be brought to the ferefull Iugement of god.
c1480 (a1400) St. John Baptist 1013 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 252 Suspec had he þat þai for his iniquite suld sla hyme.
1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes xi. 11 Was there, O was there not a iust suspect, My preaching would procuer this effect?
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suspectadj.n.2

Brit. /ˈsʌspɛkt/, /səˈspɛkt/, U.S. /ˈsəsˌpɛk(t)/
Forms: Also Middle English suspette, Middle English–1600s suspecte, 1500s Scottish suspek.
Etymology: < Latin suspectus, past participle of suspicĕre (see suspect v.): partly after Old French sospet, later (and modern French) suspect = Provençal sospech, Italian sospetto, Old Spanish suspecto, Portuguese suspeito. The present currency of this word is chiefly due to its revived use in connection with the events of the French Revolution (compare la loi des suspects of 1793).
A. adj.
a. Suspected; regarded with suspicion or distrust; that is an object of suspicion; in early use also, exciting or deserving suspicion, suspicious.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [adjective] > arousing or deserving of suspicion
suspecta1300
of suspicion1340
suspect1340
suspicious1340
untrusted1552
suspectiousa1558
suspected1559
suspected to1571
mistrusted1592
mistrustful1593
suspectful1603
slight1607
suspicable1614
distrustful1618
suspicionable1692
jealoused1695
suspectable1748
untrustable1862
funny1903
sus1958
hinky1961
sussy1965
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 205 Behoueþ him beuly þe encheysones of zenne ase speke priueliche to wyfman in stede suspect on wyþ one.
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 485 Suspecious was the diffame of this man, Suspect his face, suspect his word also.
1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 87 Who is oonis suspect, he is half honged.
1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 447/1 Duellyng in a suspect and wycked place.
1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. xv. D j Yf ye woundyd persone haue any of these chaunches..it is a suspecte tokyn or sygne.
1525 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 113 Quhat sumeuer personis that beis suspekit to have ony suspek person within thaim.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas 242 An age suspect, bycause of youthes misdeedes.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Fff4 As for..compleatnes in diuinitie it is not to be sought, which makes this course of Artificiall diuinitie the more suspecte . View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 399 I see What I can do or offer is suspect . View more context for this quotation
1692 J. P. New Guide Constables 121 If a Scholar in the University..begin to be suspect.
1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xvii. 9 Shakspeare described the sex in Desdemona As very fair, but yet suspect in fame.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. v. 125 We have him,..lying safe in the Prison of Grenoble, since September last, for he had long been suspect.1880 Fortn. Rev. May 677 Every doctrine..which claimed an à priori or intuitive character, was therefore suspect.1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 431 In tropical regions,..all water should be looked upon as suspect and treated accordingly.
†b. to have or hold (a person or thing) suspect: to be suspicious of, suspect. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > suspect, distrust [phrase]
to have, take, occasionally bear suspicion13..
to have or hold (a person or thing) suspectc1380
to have (or hold) in suspectc1386
to have supposinga1400
to enter into suspicion with1471
to have in suspicion1471
to have in jealousy1523
to smell a ratc1540
to smell a fox1599
to be or look shy on or at1837
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 291 Ȝif þou seie þat popis lawe spekiþ oþer wise of jugement, haue þe popis lawe more suspette.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 388 If þei failen in þis point, have hem suspect as fendis children.
c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1517 Hard is be holden suspect with þe grete: His tale schal be leeued but nat ourys.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 185 Have me not suspecte, I mene no tresone.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 265 Be thow not ane roundar in the nwke, For gif thow be, men will hald the suspect.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. G.iij Wise men haue hym as suspecte that the commons desyre.
?c1535 L. Cox Arte Rhethorycke (new ed.) sig. Dvv We haue one suspecte, that of very lykelyhode it shulde be he that hathe commytted the cryme.
†c. Const. to (northern dialect till) the person suspecting. (Cf. suspect v. 1b) Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [adjective] > arousing or deserving of suspicion
suspecta1300
of suspicion1340
suspect1340
suspicious1340
untrusted1552
suspectiousa1558
suspected1559
suspected to1571
mistrusted1592
mistrustful1593
suspectful1603
slight1607
suspicable1614
distrustful1618
suspicionable1692
jealoused1695
suspectable1748
untrustable1862
funny1903
sus1958
hinky1961
sussy1965
a1300 Cursor Mundi 27325 Þat sco hir saul be sauuand, And noght suspect til hir husband.
1580–1 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 347 Quhairthrow he may be suspect judge to thame.
1635 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Eliz. i. 127 This sounded not very pleasingly in the Spaniard's eares, to whom the power of the French was suspect.
1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 6 Stealing the young Pidgeons,..and that so publiquely, that he became dreadfully suspect to all the adjacent Country.
d. Const. of the evil, etc. suspected.
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c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 2 Al þis nouelrie of ordris is suspect of ypocrisie.
1423 Kingis Quair cxxxvii The remanant..For otheris gilt ar suspect of vntreuth.
1432 Paston Lett. I. 32 Eny persone..suspect of mysgovernance.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie x. 54 Ye may detaine A flie: suspect of crime, not proued plaine.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 85 I feare, of Enuie I should be suspect.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. vi. 266 If Suspect of nothing else, you may grow, as came to be a saying, ‘Suspect of being Suspect!’1912 W. Ward Life J. H. Newman I. ii. 73 The members of the party were suspect of Romanism.
†e. Const. infinitive. Obsolete. rare.
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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. viii. 6 He held them suspect to be ageynst hym.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 102 Many often tymes are suspecte to speake thynges of malice, or for hope of gaine.
B. n.2
1. A suspected person; one suspected of some offence, evil intention, or the like; a suspicious character, esp. one under surveillance as such.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > suspect
suspect1581
sus1936
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. iii. 15 A Constable, mighte at the common lawe, haue bayled a suspecte of felonie by Obligation.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlix. 228 Recusants and Suspects of noote.
1599 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (ed. 4) ii. vii. 207 If such Suspect shall refuse to be so bounde, then may such Iustice sende such Suspect to the next Gaole.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Suspect, a term adopted by the modern French to signify any person suspected of being an enemy, or indifferent to the cause of the Revolution.1838 J. Stephen Ess. Eccl. Biogr. (1849) II. 210 ‘Relations of peace and amity’ were established between the Intendant and the suspects.1852 W. E. Gladstone Exam. Reply Neapolitan Govt. 23 If they are in search of a political suspect, and conceive he has absconded.1881 Daily Tel. 18 June Arrested as a suspect under the Coercion Act.1899 R. P. Watson Mem. 131 Landing here I was treated as a suspect.
†2. A thing regarded with suspicion. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [noun] > object of
suspect1625
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 141 That the Nouelty, though it be not reiected, yet be held for a Suspect.
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suspectv.

Brit. /səˈspɛkt/, U.S. /səˈspɛk(t)/
Forms: Also 1500s Scottish -ek, -eck, 1500s–1600s contr. past participle suspect.
Etymology: < Latin suspect-, past participial stem of suspicĕre to look up, look up to, admire, esteem, (chiefly in past participle) to suspect, < su(b)- (see sub- prefix ad init. and 24, 25) + specĕre to look, cognate with Sanskrit spaç to see, Old High German spehôn (see espy v.).
1.
a. transitive. To imagine something evil, wrong, or undesirable in (a person or thing) on slight or no evidence; to believe or fancy to be guilty or faulty, with insufficient proof or knowledge; to have suspicions or doubts about, be suspicious of.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > mistrust, suspect [verb (transitive)]
mistrowOE
overtrowa1225
ortrow?c1225
susposea1325
souchec1325
supposec1384
mistrestc1415
mistrusta1425
mistraista1450
suspecta1500
mistrust1565
misdoubt1570
surmisec1571
fear1578
diffide1583
doubt1586
uncredit1615
disdoubt1659
jealouse1682
jalouse1816
suspicion1834
sus1953
a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 1633 But he the Iug, that no man may susspek, Euery thing ful Iustly sal correk.
1515 R. Sampson in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. i. 16 As they heard the tenor of the breve, one of them with a quick mind suspected the breve in three places.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lxxj Zwynglius dred bad measure suspecting bothe the men and the place.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxxix Bothe Fraunce & Englande leuie great force of men, whiche is greatly to be suspected.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 160 Whose owne hard dealings teaches them suspect the thoughts of others. View more context for this quotation
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 53 The disunitie of the professors made many to suspect the profession.
1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 38 Souldiers suspected of their courage.
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 74 I suspect all those Relations concerning Trees growing at the bottom of the Sea.
1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 97/2 Did you see upon the face of the bond any thing to make you suspect it?
1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 141 To be suspected, thwarted, and withstood, E'en when he labours for his country's good.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xiii. 170 The people suspected the gentlemen, the gentlemen feared the people.
1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. I. 82 Jacob gave Paul no reason to suspect the effect of a wider scope of life and happiness.
1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl vi. 60 The meat and bread were wholesome; but I suspected their cleanliness.
†b. suspected to (a person): mistrusted by; = suspect to, suspect adj. c. Obsolete.After Latin suspectus with the dative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [adjective] > arousing or deserving of suspicion
suspecta1300
of suspicion1340
suspect1340
suspicious1340
untrusted1552
suspectiousa1558
suspected1559
suspected to1571
mistrusted1592
mistrustful1593
suspectful1603
slight1607
suspicable1614
distrustful1618
suspicionable1692
jealoused1695
suspectable1748
untrustable1862
funny1903
sus1958
hinky1961
sussy1965
1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. A.5 Not suspectit to ane King, as vnassurit of his awin estait.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin vii. 367 The licentious behauiours of the commons were suspected to him.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 165 He..leaves his Race Growing into a Nation, and now grown Suspected to a sequent King. View more context for this quotation
1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 212 A Science, which was already suspected to me, appeared too vain to enslave my self to it any longer.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. i. 16 Behold..the administration of justice become..suspected to the whole body of the people.
1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iii. ix. 240 To the more sagacious..the answers of the oracle were suspected.
†c. Const. clause: to doubt whether…rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > doubt [verb (transitive)]
doubta1400
question1533
misdoubt?c1550
scrupulize1625
scruple1641
demur1667
suspect1698
query1815
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 337 I shrewdly suspect whether ever this were the Hecatompylos of Ortellius.
2. To imagine or fancy something, esp. something wrong, about (a person or thing) with slight or no proof: with various const. expressing that which is so imagined.
a. const. of, †with, †for.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > mistrust, suspect [verb (transitive)] > without evidence
suspect1483
1483–4 Act 1 Rich. III c. 3 (heading) An Act for baylyng of persons suspected of Felony.
1502 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 348 Certane personis that wer suspeckit of murthur.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. iv. 6 I rather will suspect the Sunne with cold [printed gold], Then thee with wantonnes. View more context for this quotation
a1623 Sir G. Buck Hist. Richard III (1979) (modernized text) i. 13 Lewis le Gros, King of France, suspected him with the queen his wife, and not without cause.
1641 W. Prynne Antipathie i. i. 29 Many suspected for doing it, were committed to prison.
1732 A. Pope Strange Relation E. Curll in J. Swift et al. Misc.: 3rd Vol. ii. 47 Most of the Children of Israel are suspected for holding the same Doctrine.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 22 At least tell me, that you do not really suspect me of any hand in her death.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man iii. 36 Those who are too well acquainted with the sagacity..of Hekekyan Bey to suspect him of having been deceived.
1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin i. i I half began to suspect myself of secret impulses of a savage kind.
b. with object and complement (sometimes introduced by as or for), and in corresp. passive use. Now rare or Obsolete.
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c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kiij Thou mayst suspect & trowe Hym more in fauour..than thou.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 220 Thy friends suspect for traitors. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. ii. 186 Than you belike suspect these Noblemen, As guilty of Duke Humfries timelesse death. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. iii. 107 Least she suspect, as he do's, Her Children, not her Husbands. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 337 Let us not then suspect our happie State Left so imperfet by the Maker wise. View more context for this quotation
1689 in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1875) XII. 58/2 A warrant to cite such as are suspect guilty to compeir.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 72 One would not suspect him, by his Phiz, for a Politician.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 19 At thirty man suspects himself a Fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his Plan.
c. with object and infinitive, and in corresp. passive use.
ΚΠ
1525 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 113 Quhat sumeuer personis that beis suspekit to have ony suspek person within thaim.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxvj The citezens of the citie..they sore suspected, rather to fauour then to hate, the erles of Marche, & Warwycke.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. i. 86 I doe suspect this trash To beare a part in this. View more context for this quotation
1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times iii. xii. 125 His gracious Majesty hath been suspected to be Popishly inclined.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God Pref. By Vertue of my Function, I suspect my self to be obliged to Write something in Divinity.
1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne 68 Who would suspect this heroic strain to be a plagiarism?
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. vii. lxxi. 164 He believed that Lydgate suspected his orders to have been intentionally disobeyed.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 486 [They] have recorded cases of hæmatemesis suspected to own a similar cause.
†d. with object and clause introduced by that (cf. 3b). Obsolete. rare.
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1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Mij We suspect suche a one that he is not altogether cliere.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 89 Sorrie I am my noble Cosen should Suspect me that I meane no good to him. View more context for this quotation
3. To imagine or fancy (something) to be possible or likely; to have a faint notion or inkling of; to surmise.
a. with simple object.
ΚΠ
?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. T.i Geue the same vnto the pacient to drinke in the houre suspectid of the feuers approching.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1714/2 Much suspected by mee, Nothing proued can be. Quod Elizabeth the prisoner.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. Bv We hear, that long we haue suspect, That thou art read in Magicks mysterie.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 192 There is Nothing makes a Man Suspect much, more then to Know little.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 11 If all be true that is suspected, or halfe what is related, there have not wanted, many strange deceptions. View more context for this quotation
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 13 They had thought of an expedient..and that it should be Executed before it should be Suspected.
1777 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 147 You do not..suspect half enough the villany of others.
1827 W. Scott Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. iv. 65 Whether the..old woman did, or did not, suspect the identity of her guest with [etc.].
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. iii. 202 Who dared suspect our King's indifference to Protestantism?
1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight ii. 17 This is the first symptom looked for when opium poisoning is suspected.
b. with object clause; also parenthetically, with as or so, or ellipt.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > suppose, surmise [verb (transitive)]
ween971
readOE
aweena1275
guessc1380
supposec1384
seemc1386
imaginec1405
presupposec1443
deem1470
surmise1509
suspectc1550
doubt1568
expect1592
s'pose1632
fancy1672
sus1958
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xi. 78 Pontius his sone suspekit that his father dottit in folie throcht his grit aige.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 182 Suspecting that there was some unknowne vertue in that picture, he called it backe.
1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. v. 463 He read something in my Face, which made him..suspect who I was.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 77 They have strangled..Sultan Osman, because (as they suspected) he had a mind to rid himself of them.
1788 M. Cutler Jrnl. 25 Aug. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 415 I..suspected it was too late for any kind of medicine to produce any valuable effect.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xi. 207 I believe I may have some wrongs to repair towards you—I have often suspected so.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 348 (note) The late Alexander Knox..learned, I suspect, much of his theological system from Fowler's writings.
1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxxiii. 558 I did not even suspect how ill she would be.
1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 82 The young Examinee is pleasantly surprised at finding that he knows more than he suspected.
4. absol. (from sense 1 or sense 3) or intransitive. To imagine something, esp. some evil, as possible or likely; to have or feel suspicion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > be mistrustful, suspect [verb (intransitive)]
ortrowOE
souche1338
defyc1380
mistrusta1382
distrust1430
misdeema1450
misgive1567
misdoubt1580
suspect1593
savour1594
disconfide1627
suspicion1905
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. H It shall suspect where is no cause of feare, It shall not feare where it should most mistrust. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 174 Oh, what damned minutes tells he ore, Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loues.
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 55 It will then be as lawful for me to Suspect as to Judge more absolutely.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. ii. 85 Some..slave.., bade to answer, not as he believes, But as those may suspect or do desire Whose questions thence suggest their own reply.
1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ix. 177 Iola was too young and simple to suspect or to doubt.
†5. transitive. With reference to a future possibility: To expect; esp. to expect with dread or apprehension. (With simple object or object clause; rarely with inf.) Obsolete or merged in sense 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expect [verb (transitive)] > with apprehension
dreada1225
doubt1509
suspect1509
fear1600
apprehenda1616
the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > be apprehensive [verb (transitive)]
mishopea1250
misforgivea1425
suspect1509
misgivea1535
mistrust1535
to have one's heart in one's mouth1548
misdread1566
fear1600
apprehend1609
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxiii. 162 I dyde suspecte That the great gyaunte unto me wolde hast.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 330 When the siege of Jerusalem was suspected from Rezin King of Syria and Pekah King of Israel.
1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. (1841) 257 The innocent child whose precipice they suspected.
1787 William of Normandy I. 131 He rather suspected to receive a reward for his pretended fidelity.
†6. To regard, take note of, care for; to respect.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > take notice of, heed [verb (transitive)]
yemec897
understandc1000
beseea1225
heeda1225
bihedec1250
tentc1330
to look into ——c1350
rewardc1350
undertakea1382
considerc1385
recorda1393
behold?a1400
receivea1425
advertc1425
attend1432
advertise?a1439
regard1526
respect1543
eye?c1550
mind1559
panse1559
to take knowledge of1566
to consider of1569
suspect1590
pass1609
matter1652
watch1676
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [verb (transitive)]
followOE
honourc1275
regard1526
to take off one's hat1571
respect1576
to see unto ——1579
suspect1590
honestate1623
defer1686
consider1692
to look up to1719
to have no (a lot of, etc.) time for1938
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. C3 Tush the Lord regardeth not the way of sinners, nor suspecteth the misdeedes of men.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. ii. 8 They were..continued in theyr being by that diuine power, perpetually maintaining and suspecting them.
1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour v. iii. 22 It shall be openly perform'd, to shew I not suspect men's censure or dislike.
1657 tr. S. Goulart Lives Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon (new ed.) in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) 927 Alexander..was by this Tyrant (not suspecting [1602, 1631 respecting] the dignity of an Ambassador, nor of his Country) made prisoner.
†7. With infinitive. To think in the least, have any idea of (doing something). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > intend [verb] > intend to do something
weenOE
willOE
thinkOE
tightc1300
to be (later also to have it) in purpose1340
tend1340
cast138.
reckona1450
aimc1450
willc1450
esteema1533
suspect1629
predeterminea1641
1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 179 Farre be it from vs, wee should once suspect to chide him.

Derivatives

suˈspecting n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [adjective]
ortrowOE
truthlessa1200
untristc1374
mistrusty?a1425
overtrowinga1425
diffidenta1460
in suspicion1471
suspicionous1474
suspectious1521
mistrustful1529
surmising1535
distrusting1549
trustless?1550
mistrusting1552
misgiving1567
suspectfula1586
misdoubtful1596
distrustfula1600
shy1600
misdoubting1601
scrupulous1608
jealousa1616
umbratiousa1639
inconfident1667
suspecting1691
unconfiding1820
untrusting1861
defiant1872
leery1896
suspicionful1911
hincty1929
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [noun] > action of distrusting
mistrustinga1450
surmising1526
fearing1546
suspicionatinga1637
diffiding1658
suspecting1691
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 54 Not that we think Suspecting to be in it self unlawful.
1732 J. Swift Advantages repealing Sacramental Test 15 If I had not known it already, to have gotten Ground in many suspecting Heads.
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