susceptibility 
susceptibility, the coefficient of induced 
magnetization : a quantity, constant for a given substance, 
which, multiplied by the total force acting upon a particle 
of a magnetic body, gives the intensity of the magnetiza- 
tion. Stimulus susceptibility. See stimulus. 
susceptible (su-sep'ti-bl), . [< F. susceptible 
= Sp. susceptible = Pg. susceptivcl = It. suscet- 
tibile, < ML. "susceptibilis, capable, susceptible, 
< L. suscipere, pp. susceptus, take up, take upon 
one, undertake, receive: see suncijiient.] 1. 
Capable of receiving or admitting, or of being 
affected ; capable of being, in some way, pas- 
sively affected; capable (of); accessible (to): 
commonly with of before a state and to before 
an agency: as, susceptible o/'pain; susceptible 
to flattery: but of is sometimes used also in 
the latter case. 
This subject of man's body is of all other things in na- 
ture most susceptible of remedy. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 
Hill, who was a very amiable man, was infinitely too 
susceptible of criticism ; and Pope, who seems to have had 
a personal regard for him, injured those nice feelings as 
little as possible. 1. D'Israeli, Calam. of Authors, II. 88. 
It sheds on souls susceptible of light 
The glorious dawn of an eternal day. Young. 
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any 
other, susceptible of rapid civilization. 
Emerson, Misc., West Indian Emancipation. 
The end and object of all knowledge should be the 
guidance of human action to good results in all the varied 
kinds and degrees of goodness of which that action is 
susceptible. Mivart, Nature and Thought, p. 257. 
2. Capable of emotional impression; readily 
impressed; impressible; sensitive. 
He was as tenderly grateful for kindness as he was sus- 
ceptible of slight and wrong. 
Thackeray, Henry Esmond, x. 
The jealousy of a vain and susceptible child. 
Bulwer, Last Days of Pompeii, iii. 4. 
SUsceptibleness (su-sep'ti-bl-nes), . Suscep- 
tibility. Bailey. 
susceptibly (su-sep'ti-bli), adv. In a suscep- 
tible manner. Imp. Diet. 
susception (su-sep'shon), n. [< F. susception 
= Sp. siiscepcion = It. suscezione, < L. suscep- 
tio(n-), an undertaking, < suscipere, pp. suscep- 
tns, take up, undertake: see suscipient.] The 
act of taking upon one's self, or undertaking. 
The descent of God to the susception of human nature. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 28. 
susceptive (su-sep'tiv), a. [= Sp. susceptive 
= It. suxcettivo, < NL. "susceptirus, < L. suscep- 
tus, pp. of suscipere, take up: see suscipient.] 
Capable of admitting; readily admitting ; sus- 
ceptible. 
Thou wilt be more patient of wrong, quiet under affronts 
and injuries, susceptive of inconveniences. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 214. 
In his deep susceptive heart he [Goethe] felt a thousand 
times more keenly than anyone else could feel. 
The Academy, April 20, 1889, p. 275. 
SUSCeptiveness (su-sep'tiv-nes), n. The prop- 
erty of being susceptive ; susceptibility. Imp. 
Diet. 
susceptivity (sus-ep-tiv'i-ti), n. [< susceptive 
+ -ity.] Capacity of admitting ; susceptibility. 
Nor can we have any idea of matter which does not 
imply a natural discerptibility, and susceptivity of various 
shapes and modifications. 
Wollaston, Religion of Nature, v. 
SUSCeptor (su-sep'tor), n. [< L. susceptor, an 
undertaker, a contractor, < suscipere, pp. sus- 
ceptus: see suscipient.] One who undertakes; 
a godfather; a sponsor. [Rare.] 
The church uses to assign new relations to the catechu- 
mens, spiritual fathers, and smceptors. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), 1. 117. 
suscipiency (su-sip'i-en-si), n. [< suscipien(t) + 
-cy.] The quality of 'being suscipient; suscep- 
tibility; reception; admission. [Rare.] 
The assumed chasm between pure intellect and pure 
sense, between power to conceive and mere itntcipiency 
to perceive. Jour. Spec. Phil., XIX. 88. 
suscipient (su-sip'i-ent), a. and n. [< L. sus- 
cipien(t-)s, ppr. of suscipere, take up, undertake, 
undergo, receive, < sus-,subs-, for sub, under, + 
capere, take: see capable.] I. a. Receiving; 
admitting. [Rare.] 
It was an immeasurable grace of providence and dis- 
pensation which God did exhibit to the wise men 
disposing the ministries of his grace sweetly, and by pro^ 
portion to the capacities of the person suscipient. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), I. 48. 
II. n. One who takes or admits ; one who re- 
ceives. [Rare.] 
God gives the grace of the sacrament. But ... he does 
not always give it at the instant in which the church gives 
the sacrament (as if there be a secret impediment in the 
suscipient). Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), L 126. 
SUSCitabilityt (sus'i-ta-bil'i-ti), n. [< suscitate 
+ -ability.] The state oir quality of being 
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readily roused, raised, or excited ; excitability. 
B. Jonsttn. (Imp. Diet.) 
SUSCltatet (sus'i-tat), r. /. [< L. suscitatus, pp. of 
suscitarc (> It. suscitare = Sp. Pg. suseitar = F. 
susciter), lift up, elevate, arouse, excite, < sub, 
under, + citare, cause to move, arouse, excite : 
see cite. Cf. resuscitate. ] To rouse; excite; 
call into life and action. 
They which do eate or drinke, hauyng those wisdomes 
[wise sentences, etc.] euer in sighte, . . . may sussitate 
some disputation or reasonynge wherby some part of 
tyme shall be saued whiche els ... wolde be idely con- 
sumed. Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, ii. 3. 
SUSCitatipnt (sus-i-ta'shon), n. [< F. institu- 
tion = Sp. smcitacion = Pg. stiscitagSo = It. 
suscitazione, < LL. suscitatio(n-). an awaken- 
ing, resuscitation, < L. stiseitare, pp. suscitut ><..; 
arouse, excite : see suscitate.] The act of arous- 
ing or exciting. 
The temple is supposed to be dissolved, and, being so, 
to be raised again ; therefore the suscitation must answer 
to the dissolution. Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, v. 
If the malign concoction of his humours should cause a 
suscitation of his fever, he might soon grow delirious. 
Fielding, Joseph Andrews, i. 13. 
susi (so'si), n. [< Hind, sftsi.] A fine cotton 
fabric striped with silk or other material of a 
different color, the stripes running in the direc- 
tion of the warp. 
suskint (sus'kin), n. [Prop, seskin ; < OFlem. 
sesken, sisken, a coin so called, same as sesken, a 
die with six spots, < ses, six, 4- dim. -ken, E. kin.] 
A small silver, or base silver, coin of Flemish 
origin, current in England as a penny or a half- 
penny in the fifteenth century. 
Suskins, crocards, galley-pennies, and pollards were base 
coins, chiefly of the fifteenth century, whose value would 
depend upon that of the money they imitated, as well as 
upon the amount of the credulity of the persons upon whom 
they were palmed. Large quantities were manufactured 
in the Low Countries, and found their way here in bales of 
cloth. JT. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 112. 
suslik (sus'lik), H. [Also songlik; < Russ. sus- 
likii.] A Eurasiatic spermophile, Spermophilus 
Suslik {Spermophilus citillits}. 
citillus; hence, some related species of that ge- 
nus; a kind of ground-squirrel. 
suspect (sus-pekf), v. [< F. suspecter = Pr. Sp. 
sospechar = Pg. sitspeitar = It. sospettare, < L. 
suspectare, look up at, watch, observe, suspect, 
mistrust, freq. of suspicere, pp. suspectus, look 
up at, suspect, mistrust, < sub, under, + spicere, 
look at: see spectacle.] I. trans. 1. To imagine 
to exist ; have a vague or slight opinion of the 
existence of, often on weak or trivial evidence ; 
mistrust; surmise. 
My heart suspects more than mine eye can see. 
Shak,Tit, And., ii. 3. 213. 
They suspected themselues discouered, and to colour 
their guilt, the better to delude him, so contented his 
desire in trade, his Pinnace was neere fraught. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 78. 
Any object not well-discerned in the dark fear and 
phantasy will suspect to be a ghost. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 258. 
Let us at most suspect, not prove our Wrongs. 
Congrew, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
2. To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evi- 
dence or without proof. 
I do suspect thee very grievously. 
Shak., K. John, iv. 3. 134. 
In the way of Trade, we still suspect the smoothest 
Dealers of the deepest Designs. 
Congreve, Old Bachelor, iv. 3. 
3. To hold to be uncertain ; doubt; mistrust; 
distrust. 
Genebrard suspects the History of the Assyrian great- 
nesse. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 71. 
Ophechankanough will not come at vs, that causes vs 
suspect his former promises. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 38. 
In politics it is held suspected, or to be employed with 
judgment. Bacon, Physical Fables, vi. 
4f. To look up to; respect; esteem. [A Latin- 
ism.] 
Not suspecting the dignity of an ambassador, nor of his 
country. North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 927. (Trench.) 
Suspected bill of health. See bill of health, unde 
suspectless 
II. intrant. To imagine guilt, danger, or the 
like ; be suspicious. 
But, 0, what damned minutes tells he o'er 
Who dotes, yet doubts ; suspects, yet strongly loves ! 
Shak, Othello, iii. 3. 170. 
suspect (sus-pekf), (i. and H.I [< ME. suspect, < 
OF. (and F.) suspect = OSp. suspecto = Pg. xim- 
pcito = It. sospetto, < L. suspectus, pp. of siixjii- 
cere, suspect: see suspect, v.] I. a. 1. Susi>ec'i- 
ed ; suspicious. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
Suspect his face, suspect his word also. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 485. 
Be not curyons to wete or knowe what thin suspect 
women do. Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 30. 
Alle other suspect bokes, bothe In Englissh and In laten. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 35. 
2. Doubtful ; uncertain. 
Sordid interests or affectation of strange relations are 
not like to render your reports suspect or partial. 
GlanviUe. 
II. n. 1 1. A suspected person; ouesuspected 
of a crime, offense, or the like. 
Whose case in no sort I do fore-judg, being ignorant of 
the secrets of the cause, but take him as the law takes 
him, hitherto for a suspect. W ttson, James I. ({fares.) 
Political suspects awaiting trial are not the only persons 
therein confined, nor are the casemates of the Trubetskoi 
bastion the only cells in that vast state prison. 
G. Ken-nan, The Century, XXXV. 75. 
2f. Something suspicious ; something causing 
suspicion. 
It is good . . . that the novelty, though it be not re- 
jected, yet be held for a suspect. 
Bacon, Innovations (ed. 1887). 
suspectt (sus-pekf), n.2 [< ME. suspect, < OF. 
suspect, < L. Htispcctus, a looking upward, re- 
gard, esteem, < suspicere, look up at, suspect: 
see stispect, v.] 1. Suspicion. 
The peple anon hath suspect of this thyng. 
Chaucer, Physician's Tale, 1. -2(B. 
You war against your reputation, 
And draw within the compass of suspect 
The unviolated honour of your wife. 
Shak, C. of E., iii. 1. 87. 
2. A vague or slight opinion. [Rare.] 
There is in man the suspect that in the transient course 
of things there is yet an intimation of that which is not 
transient. Mulford, Republic of God, p. 243. 
suspectable (sus-pek'ta-bl), a. [< suspect + 
-able.] Liable to be suspected. [Rare.] 
It is an old remark that he who labours hard to clear 
himself of a crime he is not charged with renders him- 
self suspectable. Quot. from Newspaper by Nares. 
suspectant (sus-pek'tant), a. [< L. suspec- 
tan(t-)s, ppr. of suspectare, look up at: see sus- 
pect.] In her., same as spectant. 
SUSpectedly (sus-pek'ted-li), adv. In a sus- 
pected manner; so as to excite suspicion; so 
as to be suspected. Jer. Taylor (?), Artif. 
Handsomeness, p. 93. 
suspectedness (sus-pek'ted-nes), . The state 
of being suspected or doubted. Imp. Dh-l. 
suspecter (sus-pek'ter), n. [< suspect + -<?>!.] 
One who suspects. 
A base suspecter of a virgin's honour. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, iv. 8. 
SUSpectfult (sus-pekf ful), a. [< suspect, .2, + 
-fill.] 1. Apt to suspect or mistrust, fiiiiiiiilnv, 
Physiognomie (1653). (Xares.) 
I will do much, sir, to preserve his life, 
And your innocence ; be not you suspectful. 
Shirley, Traitor, iii. -2. 
2. Exciting suspicion. 
A diffident and suspectfull prohibition. 
Milton, Areopagitica, p. 34. 
suspectible (sus-pek'ti-bl), a. [< suspect + 
-ible.] Liable to be suspected. liicliardson, 
Clarissa Harlowo, II. Ixxxi. [Rare.] 
SUSpectiont (sus-pek'shon), n. [A var. of sus- 
picion, assuming the form of L. suspectio(n-), a 
looking up to, < suspicere, pp. suspect/is, look up 
to, suspect: see suspect.] Suspicion. 
Yet hastow caught a f als suspection. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 306. 
[This is the reading of the sixteenth-century edition and 
in Tyrwhitt for the suspedaun (modern suspicion) of the 
manuscripts.] 
That yowe maye bee . . . owte of all suspection that 
yowe shal not bee deceaued, make me the guyde of this 
viage. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on 
[America, ed. Arber, p. 117). 
suspectiousnesst (sus-pek'shus-ues), . Sus- 
picion ; suspiciousness. 
Se you any suspectiousness in this mater? I pray you 
shewe me or I sende the money. 
Berners, tr. of Froissart's Chron. , II. clxvii. 
suspectlesst (sus-pekf les), a. [< simiicd, .-. 
+ -less.] 1. Not suspecting; having no suspi- 
cion. Rev. T. Adams, Works, III. 56. 2. Not 
suspected; not mistrusted. 
