Definition of suspect

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

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Fear :: Fear (n.) To suspect; to doubt.
Suspect :: Suspect (a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
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..
Suspecter :: Suspected (a.) Distrusted; doubted.
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..
Demirep :: Demirep (n.) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
Trusting :: Trusting (a.) Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful.
Distrust :: Distrust (n.) State of being suspected; loss of trust.
Mistrust :: Mistrust (v. t.) To regard with jealousy or suspicion; to suspect; to doubt the integrity of; to distrust.
Suspected :: Suspectable (a.) That may be suspected.
Misgive :: Misgive (v. t.) To suspect; to dread.
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..
Indubious :: Indubious (a.) Not doubting; unsuspecting.
Suspectless :: Suspectless (a.) Not suspecting; having no suspicion.
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..
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..
Suspended :: Suspectless (a.) Not suspected; not mistrusted.
Rack :: Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons..
Suspicious :: Suspicious (a.) Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.
Suspection :: Suspectful (a.) Apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion; suspicious; as, to be suspectful of the motives of others..
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