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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1460, 1512-1513, 1590, 1650-1700+
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Suspectit, -ed, ppl. adj. Also: suspeckyt, susspekit. [e.m.E. suspected (1559); Suspect v.] = Suspect adj. and n.2, in various senses.
1. = Suspect adj. 1 a. 1512–13 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 140.
That ye … mak thay suspectit persouns be on force put in sure fermance
2. = Suspect adj. 1 c. c1460 Thewis Gud Women 67.
Fle ill folk and susspekit place 1723 Rothesay Par. Rec. 373.
[He] was observed to be alone at unseasonable hours in a suspected place with Mary Michael
3. In attrib. use before a noun, with following infinitive: (Persons) regarded as being guilty of (something). Cf. Suspect adj. 1 g. c1650 Spalding I 20.
All [of them being] suspectit personis to be either airt and pairt or on the counsall of this fyre
4. = Suspect adj. 2. 1681 Stair Inst. iv xliii § 9 (1832) 959.
By our custom moveable tenants, who have not tacks for terms to run, are suspected witnesses
5. = Suspect adj. 3. c1420 Wynt. vii 482 (C).
Thar was a suspeckyt [R. suspect] traytoure, Set swa he was noucht pruffit in deide
6. = Suspect n.2 B 1. c1590 Fowler II 75/19.
Punishing the culpable, discovering the suspected, and renforsing the wakest places of the duikdome
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