suspirious, a.
(səˈspɪrɪəs)
[ad. L. suspīriōsus, 1. suspīrium deep breathing, sigh, shortness of breath, suspire n. Cf. F. suspirieux.]
1. Breathing with difficulty or painfully; chiefly Path. (see quot. 1896).
| 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. i. iv. lx. 329 Their [sc. hyssop's] faculties..benefit the suspirious and orthopnoical. 1657 Physical Dict., Suspirious, broken winded. 1859 Mayne Expos. Lex., Suspirious,..breathing painfully. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Theory & Pract. Med. (1878) 203 Respiration..is then generally slow and suspirious. 1896 Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 665 The respiration..becomes embarrassed and ‘suspirious’; marked, that is, by a slow laboured inspiration followed by a quick expiration and a long pause. |
2. Full of sighs, sighing.
| 1751 Hist. Pompey the Little 96 When the company had enjoyed enough of this spiritual and suspirious conversation, they proceeded in the last place to singing of psalms. 1809 Syd. Smith Methodism Wks. (1850) 138/1 To estimate what the exertions of the lachrymal and suspirious clergy would be. 1820 H. Matthews Diary Invalid (ed. 2) 223 A suspirious, lacrymose, white-handkerchief business. |