† suˈspection Obs.
Also 4 suspectioun, -eccioun, 4–5 -eccyon, 5–6 -eccion, -ectyon, 6 Sc. -ectione.
[a. OF. s(o)uspection, ad. L. suspectio, -ōnem, in med.L. suspicion, f. suspect-, suspicĕre to suspect: see -tion.]
= suspicion.
| 13.. Coer de L. 965, I took hem, thorwe suspeccyon,..to my prisoun. a 1340 Hampole Psalter xxx. 9 To..haf ill susspeccioun of a trew frend. c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. iv. (1868) 20 My wijf and þe compaignie of myn honeste frendis,..defenden me of al suspeccioun [v.r. suspecion] of syche blame. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. lvi. (1869) 34 Ther mihte be gret suspeccion that in sum..cornere the filthe were heled or heped. 1487 Act 3 Hen. VII, c. 3 Prisoners and persones arrested for light suspeccion of felony. c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon vi. 148 Yf ye have ony suspectyon vpon me. 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxv. (Percy Soc.) 180 To cause a lady to have suspection Unto her true lover. 1553 T. Wilson Rhet. 50 They make wise men ever after to have them in suspection. 1555 Eden Decades (Arb.) 117 That yowe maye..bee owte of all suspection that yowe shal not bee deceaued. 1588 Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 219 Although they are without suspection of enimies. 1631 Chapman Caesar & Pompey ii. i. D iv, Suspected? what suspection should feare a friend? 1728 Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 648 Prosecutions and suspections in relation to great malversations he was charged with. |