† suˈspectious, a. Obs.
[a. OF. suspectieux, f. suspection: see prec. and -ious.]
= suspicious.
| 14.. Chaucer's Clerk's T. 540 (Corpus MS.), Suspeccious [other MSS. Suspecious] was þe defame of þis man. 1422 Yonge tr. Secr. Secr. lix. 235 Who-so hath the Paas litill and Swyfte, he is suspeccious, of euyl will. 1477 Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 57 He that trusteth in this worlde is receiued, & he that is suspectious is in grete sorowe. 1521 in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 284 Ye shall shew unto her Grace, the keping that the King her son is in is right susspectious. a 1558 in J. R. Boyle Hedon (1875) App. 95 That no man harbor within his house anye wavering or suspeccyous persone. |
Hence † suˈspectiousness. rare—1.
| 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clxvii. 187 Se you any suspectiousnes in this mater? |