Definition of suspect

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Suspect (a.) Suspicion.

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Surmiser :: Surmise (v. t.) To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess..
Suspected :: Suspect (a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime..
Suspect :: Suspect (v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease..
Suspection :: Suspectful (a.) Apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion; suspicious; as, to be suspectful of the motives of others..
Demirep :: Demirep (n.) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
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..
Suspect :: Suspect (v. t.) To look up to; to respect.
Pigeon :: Pigeon (n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.
Distrust :: Distrust (n.) State of being suspected; loss of trust.
Suspect :: Suspect (a.) Suspected; distrusted.
Decoy :: Decoy (n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection..
Suspect :: Suspect (v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story..
Suspectable :: Suspect (v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
Suspecter :: Suspected (a.) Distrusted; doubted.
Suspectiousness :: Suspection (n.) Suspicion.
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..
Suspect :: Suspect (v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation..
Suspectful :: Suspecter (n.) One who suspects.
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..
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