suggestion 
especially, an incitement to an animal, brutal, 
or diabolical act. 
For all the rest, 
They'll take montHm as a eat laps milk. 
Shak., Tempest, !i. 1. 288. 
He knew that by his preaching evident and certain 
Rood was done ; but that there was any evil in his way of 
doing it, or likely to arise from it, was a thought which, 
if it had arisen in his own mind, he would immediately 
have ascribed to the suggestion of Satan. 
Southey, Bunyan, p. 48. 
2. The action of an idea in bringing another 
idea to mind, either through the force of asso- 
ciation or by virtue of the natural connection 
of the ideas. 
The other part of the Invention, which I term sugges- 
tion, cloth assign and direct us to certain markes or places 
which may excite our mind to return and produce such 
knowledge as it hath formerly collected, to the end we 
may make use thereof. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 
Let it not be supposed that the terms suggest and sug- 
gestion are, in their psychological relation, of recent, or 
even modern, application; for, so applied, they are old 
the oldest we possess. In this relative signification, gug- 
gero, the verb, ascends to Cicero ; and suggestio, the noun, 
is a household expression of Tertullian and St. Augustine. 
Among the earlier modern philosophers, and in this pre- 
cise application, they were, of course, familiar words as 
is shewn, among five hundred others, by the writings of 
Hermolaus Barbaras, the elder Scaliger, Melanchthon, 
Simonius, Campanella, to say nothing of the Schoolmen, 
etc. They were no strangers to Hobbes and Locke ; and 
so far is Berkeley from having first employed them in this 
relation, as Mr. Stewart seems to suppose, Berkeley only 
did not continue what he found established and in com- 
mon use. Hamilton, Reid's Works, note D**. 
[But the above is somewhat exaggerated. Suggestion was 
hardly in common use in this sense before Berkeley.] 
It is by suggestion, not cumulation, that profound im- 
pressions are made upon the imagination. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 185. 
3. Specifically, in hypnotism, the insinuation 
of a belief or impulse into the mind of the sub- 
ject by any means, as by words or gestures, usu- 
ally by emphatic declaration ; also, the impulse 
of trust and submission which leads to the ef- 
fectiveness of such incitement ; also, the idea 
SO suggested. Verbal suggestion is the usual method. 
Another is known as suggestion i/y attitude, as when, for in- 
stance, a person placed in the attitude of prayer is caused 
to pray. 
Suggestion appears to be entirely a phenomenon of un- 
conscious memory. Amer. Jour. Psychol., I. 514. 
4f. Indirect or hidden action. 
This cardinal! [Wolsey] ... by craftie suggestion gat 
into his hands innumerable treasure. 
Holiwhed, Chron., III. 922. 
5. In law, information without oath, (a) An in- 
formation drawn in writing, showing cause to have a pro- 
hibition. (6) A statement or representation of some mat- 
ter of fact entered upon the record of a suit at the instance 
of a party thereto, made by attorney or counsel without 
further evidence, usually called suggestion ujion tlte record : 
a mode of proceeding allowed in some cases as to undis- 
puted facts incidentally involved, such as the death of 
one of several plaintiffs, where the survivors are entitled 
to continue the action. Negative suggestion, that form 
of hypnotic suggestion which results in lessened or sup- 
pressed activity, as abrogation of will-power, aneesthesia of 
any kind, or inability to think, talk, act, etc. Post-hyp- 
notic suggestion, an impression made on a hypnotized 
person, persisting unrecognized for some time after the 
hypnotic condition is passed, and taking effect at the in- 
tended time. Principle of suggestion, association of 
ideas. See association. Relative suggestion, judg- 
mentSpontaneous suggestion. See spontaneous. 
= Syn. 1. Intimation, Insinuation, etc. See /w'ntl, v. t. 
suggestionism (su-jes'chon-izm), H. The doc- 
trine that hypnotic persons are merely persons 
too trustful and submissive, and that the so- 
called hypnotic trance is merely a state in 
which these characters have been stimulated 
and distrust lulled. 
suggestionist (su-jes'chon-ist), . A person 
wno accepts the theory of suggestionism. 
suggestive (su-jes'tiv), a. and . [< F. suggest!/ 
= Pg. It. suggestivo; as suggest + -ire.] I. a. 
1 . Containing a suggestion or hint ; suggesting 
what does not appear on the surface ; also, full 
of suggestion; stimulating reflection. 
He [Baconl is, throughout, and especially in his Essays, 
one of the most suggestive authors that ever wrote. 
WhaUly, Pref. to Bacon's Essays. 
"The king [of Uganda] habitually bears a couple of 
spears" : a duplication of weapons again suynestive, like 
the two swords, of a trophy [one presumably being taken 
from an enemy]. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 409. 
2. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, hypnotic 
suggestion. 
Hypnotic or suggestive therapeutics. 
Sjornstrom, Hypnotism, p. 91. 
II. 11. Something intended to suggest ideas 
to the mind. 
suggestively (su-jes'tiv-li), adv. In a sugges- 
tive manner ; by way of suggestion ; so as to 
suggest, or stimulate reflection. 
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SUggestiveness (su-jes'tiv-nes), . The state 
or character of being suggestive. New Prince- 
ton Rev., Nov., 1886, p. 364. 
SUggestment (su-jest'ment), ii. [< suggest + 
-went.] Suggestion. Imp. Diet. [Bare.] 
suggestor (su-jes'tor), n. Same as suggester. 
SUggestress (su-jes'tres), . [< suggester + 
-e.s-s.] A female who suggests. De Quincvy, 
[Bare.] 
suggestum (su-jes'tum), . ; pi. suggesta (-ta), 
as E. suggestions (-tumz). [L., < suggerere, pp. 
HHt/i/estus, carry or bring under: see suggest.] 
In Rom. antiq., a platform, stage, or tribune ; a 
raised seat; a dais. 
The ancient Suggestions, as I have often observed on 
medals, as well as on Gonstantine's arch, were made of 
wood, like a little kind of stage, for the heads of the nails 
are sometimes represented that are supposed to have fas- 
tened the boards together. \Ve often see on them the em- 
peror, and two or three general officers, sometimes sitting 
and sometimes standing, as they made speeches or dis- 
tributed a congiary to the soldiers or people. 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bonn, I. 402). 
SUggilt (suj'il), r. t. [< OF. sugiller, < L. sui/itil- 
lare, also sugillarc, beat black and blue, hence 
insult, revile.] 1. To beat black and blue. 
Tho' we with blacks and blues are suggittd, 
Or, as the vulgar say, are cudgelld. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 1039. 
2. To defame; sully; blacken. 
Openly impugned or secretly suggilled. Strype. 
SUggillatet (suj'i-lat), . t. [< "L.suggillatus, pp. 
of suygillare, beat black and blue: see suggil.'] 
Same as suggil, 1. Wiseman, Surgery. 
SUggillationt (suj-i-la'shon), M. [< F. sugilla- 
tion = Sp. sugilaeion = Pg. sugittaqSo, < L. 
sugillatio(n-), stiggillatio(n-), a black-and-blue 
mark, a spot from a bruise, an affront : see sug- 
gillate.'] Alivid or black-and-blue mark; ablow; 
a bruise ; ecchymosis : also applied to the spots 
which occur in disease and in incipient putre- 
faction. 
sugh, n. An obsolete or Scotch form of souylfi. 
SUgi (so'ge), n. [Jap.] A coniferous tree, Cryp- 
tomeria Japonica, the Japan cedar. It is the larg- 
est tree of Japan, growing 120 feet high, with a long 
straight stem; the wood is conipact, very white, soft, 
and easily worked, much used in house-building. It is 
found also in northern China, and is locally planted as a 
timber-tree, but requires moist forest valleys for success. 
suicidal (su'i-si-dal), a. [< suicide + -al.~\ Par- 
taking or being of the nature of the crime of 
suicide ; suggestive of suicide ; leading to sui- 
cide : as, suicidal mania; hence, figuratively, 
destructive of one's aims or interests; self-de- 
structive : as, a suicidal business policy. 
I am in the Downs. It 's this unbearably dull, suicidal 
room and old Boguey down-stairs, I suppose. 
Dickens, Bleak House, xjtxii. 
At the root of all suicidal tendencies lies an estimate of 
moral obligation and of the sacredness of human life en- 
tirely at variance with that introduced or sanctioned by 
the Gospel. H. N. Oxenham, Short Studies, p. 180. 
Sllicidally (su'i-sl-dal-i), adv. In a suicidal 
manner. 
suicide 1 (su'i-sid), , [= F. suicide = Sp. Pg. 
It. suicida, < NL.'sMicida, < L. sui, of oneself, + 
-cida, a killer, < csedere, kill. ] One who commits 
suicide ; at common law, one who, being of the 
years of discretion and of sound mind, destroys 
himself. 
If fate forbears us, fancy strikes the blow ; 
We make misfortune, suicides in woe. 
Young, Love of Fame, v. 
suicide 2 (su'i-sid), . [= F. suicide = Sp. Pg. 
It. suicidio, < NL. *suicidium, suicide, < L. sui, 
of oneself, + -cidium, a killing, < ciedere, kill.] 
1. The act of designedly destroying one's own 
life. To constitute suicide at common law, the person 
must be of years of discretion and of sound mind. The 
word is by some writers used to include the act of one 
who, in maliciously attempting to kill another, occasions 
his own death, as where a man shoots at another and the 
gun bursts and kills himself. H. Stephen. 
The argument which Plutarch and other writers derived 
from human dignity was that true courage is shown in the 
manful endurance of suffering, while suicide, being an act 
of flight, is an act of cowardice, and therefore unworthy 
of man. Leclcy, Europ. Morals, II. 46. 
2. Figuratively, destruction of one's own inter- 
ests or aims. 
In countries pretending to civilisation there should be 
no war, much less intestine war. which may be justly 
called political suicide. V. Knox, Works, V. 125. 
suicide 2 (su'i-sid), . t. [< suicide 1 *, .] To be 
guilty of suicide. [Slang.] 
The wills which had been made by persons who suicided 
while under accusation were valid. 
Quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser.. V. 197. 
suicidism (su'i-si-dizm), ii. [< suicide? + -WH.] 
A disposition to suicide. Imp. Diet. 
suist 
suicism (su'i-sizm), n. [< L. sui, of oneself, + 
-c-isni: see egoism.'} Selfishness; egotism; ego- 
ism: the opposite of altruism. [Rare.] 
But his suicisme was so grosse that any of Ahab's re- 
lations (whom he made run out of all they had) might 
read it. Ji. Whittock, Zootomia, p. 383. (Sares.) 
Suidse (su'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < ,s + -idee.'] 
The swine ; the suiform or suilline quadru- 
peds, a family of setif erous artiodactyl (or even- 
toed) non-ruminant ungulate mammals, typi- 
fied by the genus Sus. The family formerly con- 
tained all the swine, and corresponded to the three mod- 
ern families the Dicotylidte or peccaries, the Phacochce- 
ridee or wart-hogs, and the Suidse proper. In these last 
the palatomaxillary axis is scarcely deflected, or nearly 
parallel with the occipitosphenoid axis; thebasisphenoid 
is normal, without sinuses; the orbits are directed outward 
and forward ; the malar bones are elongated, and expanded 
downward ; and the dentition is normal, with 44 teeth. 
The restricted family contains, besides the genus Sue, the 
Indian Porcula, the African Potamochcerus or river-hogs, 
and the Malayan JBabirussa. See cuts under oabirussa, 
boar, peccary, Phacochcerus, and Potanwchoerus. 
Suiform (su'i-form). a. [< L. sus, swine, + 
forma, form.] Having the form or characters 
of the Suidse; related to the swine; of or per- 
taining to the Suiformia. 
Suiformia (su-i-for'mi-ii), n. pi. [NL. : see */- 
form.'] The suiform setiferous animals, or 
swine proper, represented by the Suidse and 
Phacochoiridse, as distinguished from the Di- 
cotyliformia or IHcotylidse. Gill. 
SUI generis (su'i jen'e-ris). [L. : *MJ, gen. of 
suus, his, her, its, their; generis, gen. of genus, 
kind : see genus.'] Of his, her, its, or their own 
or peculiar kind ; singular. 
sui juris (su'i jo'ris). [L. : sui, gen. of suus, 
his, her, its, their; juris, gen. of jus, right, jus- 
tice, duty:, see jus 2 .'] 1. In Bom. law, the 
status of any one who was not subject to the 
patria potestas. S. E. Baldwin. 2. In mod- 
ern legal usage, of full age and capacity, and 
legally capable of managing one's own affairs, 
as distinguished from infants, lunatics, and wo- 
man under common-law disqualifications of 
coverture. 
Sllillaget, Same as sullage. 
Suilline (su'i-lin), a. and n. [< L. suillus, per- 
taining to swine. < sus, a hog, swine : see .] 
1. a. Swinish; pig-like; suiform; pertaining to 
the swine : as, a suilline artiodactyl. 
H. ii. A swine. 
Suinae (su-i'ne), n.pl. [NL., < Sus + -mas.] A 
subfamily of Suidse, when the family name is 
used in a broad sense : same as Suidse proper. 
SUine (su'in), .. A preparation from beef-suet 
and lard; a mixture of oleomargarin with lard, 
refined cottonseed-oil, or other fatty sub- 
stances, used as a substitute for butter. 
suing 1 (su'ing), H. [Also sen- ing; < M.E.sewynge; 
verbal n. of sue 1 , r.] If. Regular succession, 
order, or gradation ; proportion. 
Men may seo on an appul-treo, meny tyme and ofte, 
Of o kynne apples aren nat yliche grete, 
Ne of seieynge smale ne of o swetnesse swete. 
Piers Plowman (C), xix. US. 
2. The act or process of making or paying suit ; 
wooing. 3. The act or process of prosecuting 
judicially; bringing suit. 
SUingH (su'ing), p. a. [< ME. sewynge; ppr. of 
MMl,0.] 1. Following; ensuing. 
The nyght sewynge, this white Knyght cam to the 7 
Lynages. Manderille, Travels, p. 225. 
2. Conformable; in proportion. 
I knew on her noon other lak 
That al her limmes nere [were not] pure seu-ing. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 959. 
SUing 2 t, Same as sewing 2 . 
The percolation, or suing of the verjuyce through the 
wood. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 79. 
suinglyt (su'ing-li), adr. [< ME. semjngly; < 
suing 1 , i). a., + -fy 2 .] In due order; afterward; 
later. 
Now schalle I seye zou sewyngly of Contrees and Yles 
that ben bezonde the Contrees that I have spoken of. 
MandeviUe, Travels, p. 263. 
SUint (swint), H. [F. : seesrfi>fr.] The nat- 
ural grease of wool, consisting of insoluble 
soapy matter combined with a soluble salt con- 
taining from 15 to 33 per cent, of potash, which 
may be extracted commercially from the wool- 
washings. 
suiriri (swi-re'ri), n. [S. Amer.] A South 
American tyrannine bird of the genus Fluvi- 
cola, as F. icterophri/n ; a watercap. See cut 
under Fhtricota. 
suist (su'ist), n. [< L. sui, of himself, herself, 
itself, + -/6'i.] One who selfishly seeks his own 
gratification; a self-seeker; an egotist. [Bare.] 
