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Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed..

Suspectless :: Suspectless (a.) Not suspecting; having no suspicion.

Surmiser :: Surmise (v. t.) To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess..

Indubious :: Indubious (a.) Not doubting; unsuspecting.

Trusting :: Trusting (a.) Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful.

Suspect :: Suspecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suspec.

Suspect :: Suspect (a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

Suspect :: Suspect (a.) Suspicion.

Quarantine :: Quarantine (v. t.) To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine..

Obelus :: Obelus (n.) A mark [thus /, or Ö ]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings..

Lynch :: Lynch (v. t.) To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law..

Misgive :: Misgive (v. t.) To suspect; to dread.

Jealous :: "Jealous (a.) Disposed to suspect rivalry in matters of interest and affection; apprehensive regarding the motives of possible rivals, or the fidelity of friends; distrustful; having morbid fear of rivalry in love or preference given to another; painfully suspicious of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover..

Suspect :: Suspect (a.) Suspected; distrusted.

Petalism :: Petalism (n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.

Unsuspicion :: Unsuspicion (n.) The quality or state of being unsuspecting.

Purgation :: Purgation (n.) The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal..

Suspecter :: Suspected (a.) Distrusted; doubted.

Distrust :: Distrust (n.) State of being suspected; loss of trust.

Credulous :: Credulous (a.) Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting.

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