Definition of suspect

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Suspect (a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

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Suspection :: Suspectful (a.) Apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion; suspicious; as, to be suspectful of the motives of others..
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..
Distrust :: Distrust (n.) State of being suspected; loss of trust.
Suspicious :: Suspicious (a.) Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.
Trusting :: Trusting (a.) Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful.
Mistrust :: Mistrust (v. t.) To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.
Suspicion :: Suspicion (n.) The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence..
Unsuspicion :: Unsuspicion (n.) The quality or state of being unsuspecting.
Scratchback :: Scratchback (n.) A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons..
Fear :: Fear (n.) To suspect; to doubt.
Suspect :: Suspecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suspec.
Suspecter :: Suspected (a.) Distrusted; doubted.
Surmiser :: Surmise (v. t.) To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess..
Suspect :: Suspect (v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation..
Misgive :: Misgive (v. t.) To suspect; to dread.
Suspended :: Suspectless (a.) Not suspected; not mistrusted.
Suspectful :: Suspecter (n.) One who suspects.
Corsned :: Corsned (n.) The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt..
Pigeon :: Pigeon (n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.
Equivocal :: Equivocal (a.) Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal..
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