suspectless 
'I his Rh.'ipe (n:i> pM'Vr <*t>. ,^/. ->- , atxl tin- Httest 
To cluiiil :i ^oHljea.l in. 
//,///<'"', lupili i- mill In (XViirku, i'il. 1^7^, VI. .;!>. 
Suspend (Mis-pcni!'), r. [< MK. *.<//>. < 
<)!'. (anil \'\) niix/iniilri: = I'r. siix/n-mlrr = Sp. 
I'g. sllx/ii'lldi'l- = II. sox/M'iiitri-i . < li. xtix/ii-Hilfri'. 
liiin^ up. linn";. < .S-H.V-, mill.*-, for *//, under, + 
/irinli-ri-, hang: see pendent.'] I. Iriinn. 1. To 
cause to haii";; make In depend from anything; 
hung: as, In *>/ // a ball by a thread; hence, 
in hold, or keep from falling or sinking, as if 
tiy limiting: as, solid particles .//>/.( mini in a 
liquid. 
After III monethcs tin hem nuprnde, 
And right goode llcoiiiv of hem wul descende. 
I'allailim, Ilushomlrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 90. 
A nuiHiiuito i-urtaln is suspended over the bed by meium 
uf four strings, which are attached to null* in the wall. 
/.'. If. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 100. 
Milk uf Miigncain is not a suspended Magnesia, but a 
pun- ll\ ill-it' 11 ' ii\iili.-of Magnesium. 
Pop. Sri. Kmi, XXIII., p. 5 of adv'U. 
2. To make to depend (on). 
God hath . . . suspended the promise of eternal life 
upon this condition : that without obedience and lioliii. . 
of life no man shall ever see the Lord. Tillotmm. 
This election . . . involve* all the questions of mere 
IKilicy whii-h are ever suspended on the choice of a presi- 
dent. /(. Clwate, Addresses, p. 334. 
3. To cause to cease for a time ; hinder from 
proceeding; interrupt; stay; delay: as, all busi- 
ness was MMpMMhdi 
If it shall please yon to suspend your indignation against 
my brother till you can derive from him better testimony 
of his intent, you shall run a certain course. 
Stiak., Lear, 1. 2. 86. 
Nature her self attentive Silence kept. 
And Motion seem'd suspended while she wept. 
Conifreve, Tears of Amaryllis. 
4. To hold undetermined ; refrain from form- 
ing or concluding definitely : as, to suspend one's 
opinion. 
We should not be too hasty in believing the tale, but 
rather suspend our Judgments till we know the truth. 
Latimer, Misc. Selections. 
I endeavour to suspend my belief till I hear more cer- 
tain accounts than any which have yet come to my know- 
ledge. .ii/i//'<r,/,, Spectator, No. 117. 
5. To debar, usually for a time, from any privi- 
lege, from the execution of an office, or from 
the enjoyment of income: as, a student s- 
pended for some breach of discipline (rarely, 
in this use, suspended from college). 
Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of 
their ministry, and deprived of their livelihood, for cere- 
monies which are on ail hands acknowledged indifferent. 
Bp. Sanderson. 
Compton, the bishop of London, received orders to sus- 
pend Sharp till the royal pleasure should be f urtherknown. 
Macaulay, Hist Eng., vi. 
6. To cause to cease for a time from operation 
or effect : as, to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act ; 
to suspend the rules of a deliberative assembly. 
7. In mimic, to hold back or postpone the 
progression of (a voice-part) while the other 
parts proceed, usually producing a temporary 
discord. See suspension, 5. TO suspend payment 
or payments, to declare inability to meet Hnancial en- 
gagements; f:.il. Syn. 3. To intermit, stop, discontinue, 
arrest. 
II. intrans. To cease from operation ; desist 
from active employment; specifically, to stop 
payment, or be unable to meet one's engage- 
ments. 
suspended (sus-pen'ded). p. a. 1. Hung from 
something: as, a suspended ornament. 2. In- 
terrupted; delayed; undecided. 
Thus he leaves the senate 
Divided and suspended, all uncertain. 
It. Jonson, Sejanus, Iv. 5. 
3. In bot., hanging directly downward; hang- 
ing from the apex of a cell, as many seeds. 
4. In entom., attached in a pendent position 
by the posterior end. as the chrysalids of many 
butterflies. Also adln-n nt. See Suspensi, 2. 
Suspended animation, cadence, etc. Sec the nouns. 
Suspended note nr tone. See suspension, 5. Sus- 
pended organs, in entom., organs attached by means of 
ligatures, but not inserted in the supporting part, as the 
legs of a grasshopper. 
suspender (sus-pen'der), . [< suspend + -!.] 
1 . One who or that which suspends or is sus- 
pended. 
It was very necessary to devise a means of fastening the 
fibre rigidly to the suspender and to the vibrator. 
Philos. Mag., 5th ser., XXX. 109. 
(a) One of the two straps worn for holding up trousers, etc. : 
one of a pair of braces : generally in the plural. 
Correspondences are like small clothes before the in- 
vention of suspenders ; it Is impossible to keep them up. 
Sydney Smith, Letters, 1841. (Danes.) 
(b) A hanging basket or vase, as for flowers. Jeirill. (Y 
ramie Art in iireat liritain, II. I. 
6081 
2. One of a series of tanning-pits. See the 
limitation. 
In these pits (also called suspenders) the hides are sus- 
pended over poles laid across tin- pit. iiml they are n.ovr.l 
iluily fnini one to another of n series of four or six, this 
stag*: usually occupying alxmt n ur< k. 
.-. ML, MV. 384. 
3f. One who remains in a state of suspense ; 
a waverer. 
I mayadde thereunto <ir the cautelousnet of suspend- 
ers and not forward concluders In these times. 
///'. Mountagu, Appeal to C'mar, II. 5. 
SUSpensation (sus-pen-sa'shon), u. [< suspense 
+ -atiim.] A temporary cessation. ///. lti<-i. 
suspenset (sus-pens'),!'. '. [< I-. * .</ <, pp. 
of H./"'"''' c, . hung, suspend: see suspend.'} To 
suspend. Stubbes. Anat. of Abuses (ed. 1H3<5), 
p. 101. (Hull, Mod. Eng., p. 226.) 
suspense! (sus-pens'), o. [< OF. suspens = Sp. 
xif.vyirH.vo, < \j. xiiKpriixiin, pp.: see xuxjii n*i', r.] 
1. Held or lifted up; suspended. 
Whenne thai rooteth, raise hem with thi h>nde, 
That thai suspense a partie so may stande. 
Palladitu, Huslwndrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 86. 
2. Held in doubt or expectation ; also, express- 
ing or proceeding from suspense or doubt. 
All Minds are suspense with expectation of a new As- 
sembly, and the Assembly for a good space taken up with 
the new selling of It self. Milton, Free Commonwealth. 
Expectation held 
His Imiks susjtenne, awaiting who appear'd 
To second or oppose. Milton, P. L., ii. 418. 
suspense (sus-pens'), n. [Formerly also sus- 
peiirc; < F. suspense, the act of suspending, 
< suspens, suspended: see suspense, a. and .] 
1. Tne state of being suspended; specifically, 
the state of having the mind or thoughts sus- 
pended ; especially, a state of uncertainty, usu- 
ally with more or less apprehension or anxiety ; 
indetermination; indecision. 
I find my thoughts almost in suspense betwixt yea and 
no. Milton, Church-Government, II. S. 
Without Preface, or Pretence, 
To hold thee longer in Sutpence. 
Comjreve, An Impossible Thing. 
2. Cessation for a time ; stop. [Rare.] 
A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain. 
Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 1. 250. 
3. Suspension : a holding in an undetermined 
state. 
Suspence of judgement and exercise of charitie. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Iv. 14. 
4. In lute, suspension ; a temporary cessation 
of a man's right, as when the rent or other 
profits of land cease by unity of possession of 
land and rent Suspense account, in bookkeeping. 
an account in which sums received or disbursed are tem- 
porarily entered, until their proper place in the books Is 
determined. 
Suspensi (sus-pen'si), . pi. [NL., < L. suxpen- 
SHS, pp. of sui>endere, hang: see suspense, n.] 
If. In ornith., the humming-birds or Trochili- 
dse : so called from their habit of hovering on 
the wing, as if suspended in the air, in front of 
flowers. Illiger, 1811. 2. In entom., a divi- 
sion of butterflies, including those whose chrys- 
alids are simply suspended, not succinct: con- 
trasted with tiutcincti. 
suspensibility (sus-pen-si-biri.-ti), . [< sus- 
pensible + -ity.] The capacity of being sus- 
pensible, or sustainable from falling or sink- 
ing: as, the suspetisibilHy of indurated clay in 
water. Imp. Diet. 
suspensible (sus-pen'si-bl), a. [< suspense + 
-iWf.] Capable of being suspended, or held 
from sinking. Imp. Diet. 
suspension (sus-pen'shon), n. [< F. suspension 
= op. suspension = Pg. susjtettsSo = It. sospen- 
sione,( L. suspensio(n-), the act or state of hang- 
ing up, a vaulting, < suspendere, pp. sunpetisus, 
hang up: s&esuspend.] 1. The act of suspend- 
ing, or the state of being suspended ; the act or 
state of hanging from a support; hence, the 
state of being held up or kept in any way from 
falling or sinking, as in a liquid. 2. The act 
of suspending, or delaying, interrupting, ceas- 
ing, or stopping for a time ; the state of being 
delayed, interrupted, etc. (o) The act of stopping 
or ceasing : as, a suspension of pain. 
He consented to enter into negotiations for a suspension 
of hostilities. Pmeott, Ferd. and Isa., II. 13. 
(6) The act of refraining from decision, determination, 
sentence, execution, or the like : as, a suspension of judg- 
ment or opinion, (c) The act of causing the operation or 
effect of something to cease for a time : as, the suspension 
of the Habeas Corpus Act. 
Practically, no bill escapes commitment save, of course, 
bills introduced by committees, and a few which may now 
and then he crowded through under t suspension of the 
rules, granted by a two-thirds vote. 
W. Wilton, Cong. Oov., II. 
Example of Suspension. 
a, preparation; *, percus- 
sion ; c, resolution. 
suspensor 
'". I he act of ceasing to pay debts or claims on aeeount 
of flnani inl inability : l.u>>iiieis failure: a,thei/*; 
of a hank or eon -relal house, (n Temporaiy d. p 
(ion of otllee, power, pren>gative. or any other ptr. 
as, the sti*i'ii*ii>n of an ohVer or of n -. r ) In 
late: (1) Tin- i< ni|K,rary "top of a man's right, as win n a 
seigniory 1 , runt, or other profit out of laml !i> - dormant 
for a time, by reason of the unity of possession of the 
seigniory, n nt, etr.. and of the land out of which iln-y 
issue. (2) In Xrot* late, a process in the supreme civil or 
.riniinal court by which execution or diligence on a sen- 
tence or decree Is stayed until the judgment of tin >u 
j.i .in.- court is obtained on the point. 
3. That which is suspended or hung up, or thai 
which is held up, as in a liqiii.1. 
Certain very ferruginous clays under experiment, the 
later suspensions from which are amber-colored, change- 
thus very decidedly and obviously from summer to winter 
In a vessel which Is kept in the temperature of my study. 
Amer. Jour. Sci., XXIX. :<. 
4. The act of keeping a person in suspense or 
doubt. 5. Inmutic: (a) The act, process, or re- 
sult of prolonging or sustaining a tone in one 
chord into a following chord, in which at first it 
is a dissonance, but into which it is immediately 
merged by a conjunct progression upward or 
downward. The sounding of the tone In the flnt chord 
Is called the preparation of the suspension. Its dissonant 
sounding In the second the percussion, and Its final pas- 
sage Into consonance the resolution. Usually the term 
suspension Is used only when the resolution Is downward, 
retardation being the common term when the resolution 
U upward. (See retardation, 4 (b).) When two or more 
voice-parts undergo suspension 
at once, the suspension Is called 
double, triple, etc. Suspension 
was the earliest method selected 
for Introducing dissonances Into 
regular composition. (See prep- 
aration, 9 (6).) Its success de- 
pends largely on the exact har- 
monic relations of the suspend- 
ed tone to the chord in which it is dissonant, and on the 
way In which its dissonance Is rhythmically emphasized. 
(b) The tone thus suspended. 6. In a vehicle, 
any method of supporting the body clear of the 
axles, as by springs, side-bars, or straps. jjln- 
lar suspension. See bijitar. Critical suspension of 
judgment. See critical. Indagatory suspension of 
opinion*. See indagatoru. Pleas In suspension, in 
Scots l<m; those pleas which show some matter of tempo- 
rary incapacity to proceed with the action or suit. Points 
Of suspension, in mech., the points, as in the axis of a 
beam or balance, at which the weights act, or from which 
they are suspended. Siflt on a suspension. SeesisL 
Suspension and Interdict, in Scuts late, a judicial reme- 
dy competent in the hill chamber of the Court of Session, 
when the object Is to stop or interdict some act or to pre- 
vent some encroachment on property or possession, or in 
general to stay any unlawful proceeding. The remedy is 
applied for by a note of suspension and interdict Sus- 
pension-bridge. See brid(/ei. Suspension hub. See 
hub. Suspension of arms. See the quotation. 
If the cessation of hostilities is for a very short period, 
or at a particular place, or for a temporary purpose, such 
as for a parley, or a conference, or for removing the wound- 
ed and burying the dead after a battle. It is called a suspen- 
sion of arms. II. W. HaUeek, International Law, xxvii. 3. 
Suspension-railway, a railway In which the body of 
the carriage is suspended from an elevated track or tracks 
on which the wheels run. = Syn. 2. Intermission, etc. 
(see stopl, n.). Interruption, withholding. 2. (ft) Bank- 
ruptcy, etc. See failure. 
suspension-drill (sus-pen'shon-dril), i. A ver- 
tical drilling-machine carried by a frame which 
may bo bolted to the ceiling or other support 
overhead: used in metal-work, as for boiler- 
plates. E, H. Knight. 
suspensive (sus-pen'siv), a. [< F. suspenstf = 
Sp. Pg. suspensivo = It. sospenmro, suspensivo, < 
ML. *Kuspftisivus (in deriv.),< L. suspendere, pp. 
suxpensus, suspend : see suspend, suspense.'] 1. 
Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; 
causing interruption ; uncertain; doubtful; de- 
liberative. 
These few of the lords were suspensive In their Judg- 
ment Bp. Ilacket, Abp. Williams, p. 139. 
And in suspensive thoughts a while doth hover. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, II. 97. 
2. Having the power to suspend the opera- 
tion of something. 
In every way the better plan may be to recognise the 
fact that power, under a democracy, will centre In the pop- 
ular assembly, and ... by subjecting It to a suspensive 
veto. Nineteenth Century, XX. 821. 
We are not to be allowed even a susjirnsive veto. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxv. (Encyc. Diet.) 
Suspensive conditions, conditions which make the com- 
mencement of a legal transaction or title dependent npon 
the happening or not happening of a future uncertain 
fact 
SUSpensively (sus-pen'siv-li), adr. In a sus- 
pensive manner. 
We become aerial creatures, so to speak, resting suspen- 
sively on things above the world. 
H. Kushnell, Sermons on Living Subjects, p. 58. 
suspensor (sus-pen'sor), B. [= F. sns]>ensevr, 
< ML. suspensor, < L. suspendere, pp. suspenses, 
suspend: see suspend, suspense.'] Onewhoorthat 
which suspends, (o) In smy., a suspensory bandage. 
