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pleasant eminences. Its principal products are wine, ches- 
nuts, fruit, silk in some districts, and a little corn. Grazing 
forms an important branch of its industry ; and in several of 
the petty districts are manufactures of linen and leather. It 
contains likewise mines of iron and marble. 
SUSA, a small town situated at the foot of the Alps, on 
the great road leading across Mount Cenis. The valley in 
which it stands is watered by the Dora-Piccola, and presents 
the most romantic appearance. The town itself is meanly 
built, and contains only 1700 inhabitants. It is, however, 
a place of great antiquity, and must have been formerly of 
importance in a military view, from its situation on the only 
road, or rather passage, then known from Gaul into Italy, 
to defend which it had extensive works, and a castle at a 
small distance, now called La Brunette. It has several 
relics; but the only monument at present existing in a state 
of preservation, is a beautiful triumphal arch in honour of 
Augustus, erected by a Roman prefect, called Cottius, from 
whom the contiguous portion of the Alps probably took 
the name of Cottian ; 23 miles west-north-west of Turin. 
SUSA, a town of Korassan, in Persia; 130 miles south¬ 
east of Nishapour. 
SUSAO, a small town in the north of Portugal, in the 
west of the province of Beira, near the Douro; 17 miles 
west of Oporto. It has 2300 inhabitants. 
SUSCEPTIBI'LITY, s. Quality of admitting; tendency 
to admit.—The susceptibility of those influences, and the 
effects thereof, is the general providential law whereby other 
physical beings are governed. Hale. 
SUSCE'PTIBLE, adj. [susceptible, Fr.] Capable of 
admitting; disposed to admit.—Children’s minds are nar¬ 
row, and usually susceptible but of one thought at once. 
Loclce. 
SUSCE'PTIBLENESS, 5. Susceptibility. 
SUSCE'PTION, j. [susceptus, Lat.] Act of taking.—I 
see the susception of our human nature lays thee open to 
this condition. Bp. Hall. 
SUSCE'PTIVE, adj. [susceptus, Lat. This word is 
more analogical, though less used than susceptible. Dr. 
Johnson.] Capable to admit.—Since our nature is so sus¬ 
ceptive of errours on all sides, it is fit we should have notices 
given us how far other persons may become the causes of 
false judgments. Watts. 
SUSCEPTI'VITY, s. Capability of admitting.—Nor can 
we have any idea of matter, which does not imply a natural 
discernibility, and susceptivity of various shapes and modi¬ 
fications. Wollaston. 
SUSCE'PTOR, s. [susceptor, Lat.] One who under¬ 
takes ; a godfather. Coles.— In our church, those who are 
not secular persons, are not forbid to be godfathers (as in 
the church of Rome), nor are any susceptors supposed to 
contract any affinity, as that such an undertaking should 
hinder marriage between the sponsors and the persons bap¬ 
tized, if otherwise it be lawful. Puller. 
SUSCI'PIENCY, s. Reception ; admission. 
SUSCI'PIENT, s. [suscipiens, Lat.] One who takes; 
one that admits or receives.—The sacraments and ceremo¬ 
nies of the Gospel operate not without the concurrent actions, 
and moral influences, of the suscipient. Bp. Taylor. 
SUSCI'PIENT, adj. [suscipiens, Lat.] Receiving, ad¬ 
mitting.—Effecting miracles, superior or contrary to the law 
and course of nature, without any preparatory dispositions 
induced into the suscipient matter, in the same manner, 
by mere willing, saying, or commanding, doth persuade 
the same. Barrow. 
To SU'SCITATE, v. a. [suscito, Lat.] To rouse ; to 
excite.—He shall suscitate or rayse the courage of all men 
inclined to vertue. Sir T. E/yot. 
SUSCITA'TION, s. [suscitation, Fr.] The act of 
rousing or exciting. Bullokar. —The temple is sup¬ 
posed to be here dissolved; and, being so, to be raised 
again : therefore the suscitation must answer to the disso¬ 
lution. Pearson. 
SUSDAL, a small town in the interior of European Rus- 
s u s 
sia, government of Vladimir. It contains 2200 inhabitants, 
is a bishop’s see, and has a seminary for the education of 
priests. Eudoxia Federovna, the first wife of Peter the 
Great, was long confined in a convent here; 24 miles north- 
north-east of Vladimir. 
SUSE, a province of Morocco, situated at its southern 
extremity, immediately bordering on the desert. It is the 
most extensive, and, unless in grain, the most fertile of any 
in the empire. There is not, perhaps, a finer climate in the 
world; its fruits are exquisite, particularly olives, the plan¬ 
tations of which are so extensive, that a man may travel 
uninterruptedly through them for several days. The sugar¬ 
cane is said to grow spontaneously. Cotton, indigo, and 
gums, are abundant. Stick-liquorice abounds to such a 
degree, as to be called the root of Suse. Almonds and olive 
oil are produced more plentifully for exportation than in all 
the rest of the empire put together. The population consists 
of many wandering tribes of Arabs and Shelluchs. The 
principal town is Agadur, or Santa Cruz, situated at the 
mouth of the river of Suse; but the whole province has suf¬ 
fered materially, since its trade, by a capricious order of the 
emperor, was transferred to Mogodor. 
SUSE, River of, rises in a branch of the Atlas, and 
traversing the above province, falls into the Atlantic to the 
south of Cape Geer. The breadth at the mouth is not in 
proportion to the length of its course, as a great part of it 
is drawn off for irrigation. 
SUSEDOON, a town of Hindostan, province of Delhi, 
situated near the ancient canal of Sultan Feroz, and now 
possessed by an independent chief. Lat. 29. 20. N. long. 
76. 30. E. 
To SUSPE'CT, v. a. [suspicio, suspectum, Lat.] To 
imagine with a degree of fear and jealousy what is not 
known.—Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than 
to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion 
by procuring to know more. Bacon. 
Let us not then suspect our happy state. 
As not secure. Milton. 
From her hand I could suspect no ill. Milton. —To 
imagine guilty without proof.—Though many poets may 
suspect themselves for the partiality of parents to their 
youngest children, I know' myself too well to be ever satis¬ 
fied with my own conceptions. Dry den. —To hold uncer¬ 
tain ; to doubt.—I cannot forbear a story which is so well 
attested, that I have no manner of reason to suspect the 
truth. Addison. 
To SUSPE'CT, v. n. To imagine guilt.—If I suspect 
without cause, let me be your jest. Shakspeare. 
SUSPE'CT, part. adj. [suspect, Fr.] Doubtful.—Sor¬ 
did interests or affectation of strange relations are not like to 
render your reports suspect or partial. Glanville. 
SUSPE'CT, s. Suspicion; imagination without proof. 
Obsolete. 
No fancy mine, no other wrong suspect, 
Make me, O virtuous shame, thy laws neglect. Sidney. 
SUSPE'CTABLE, adj. That may be suspected. Cot- 
grave. 
SUSPE'CTEDLY, adv. So as to be suspected; so as to 
excite suspicion.—[They] have either undiscernibly as some, 
or suspectedly as others, or declaredly as many, used such 
additaments to their faces, as they thought most advanced 
the beauty or comeliness of their looks. Bp. Taylor. 
SUSPE'CTEDNESS, s. State of being suspected; state 
of being doubted.—Some of Hippocrates’ aphorisms trans¬ 
planted into our nations, by losing their lustre, contract a 
suspectedness. Dr. Robinson. 
SUSPE'CTER, s. One who suspects.—A base suspecter 
of a virgin’s honour. Beaum. and FI. 
SUSPE'CTFUL, adj. Apt to suspect; apt to mistrust. 
Bailey. 
SUSPE'CTLESS, adj. Not suspecting; without suspi¬ 
cion.—Eighty of them being assembled, and suspcctlesi of 
harm, were all knocked down. Sir T. Herbert. —Not sus¬ 
pected. 
