the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Suspect
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
(2):
(v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
(3):
(v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
(4):
(a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
(5):
(a.) Suspected; distrusted.
(6):
(v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; - commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
(7):
(v. t.) To look up to; to respect.
(8):
(a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; - formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
(9):
(a.) Suspicion.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Suspect'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/suspect.html. 1828.
