v. Obs. or dial. Also 7 jealouze, 9 jealous. [ad. F. jalouser, with spelling conformed to JEALOUS. Now chiefly Sc. and north. dial. and spelt JALOUSE, q.v.] trans. To suspect (a thing or person); to have a suspicion that: see JALOUSE v. 2.
1682. Bunyan, Holy War, xiv. It was jealoused that they were too familiar with them.
1682. Flavel, Fear, 32. A guilty conscience … distrusts all, doubts and jealouzeth all.
1703. D. Williamson, Serm. bef. Gen. Assembly Edinburgh, 48. With attestations justly jealoused.
1718. Wodrow, Corr. (1843), II. 377. But I jealouse, if the Lord take him away, it will be so sudden.
1721. Wodrow, Suffer. Ch. Scot., I. 7. The Brethren … did very much fear and jealouse Mr. James Sharp.
1827. Carlyle, in Froude, Life (1882), I. xxii. 430. Will you be good neighbours or bad? I cannot say…. I jealouse you.
1876. Whitby Gloss., s.v., ‘I jealous’d it.’
Hence † Jealoused ppl. a., suspected.
1695. J. Sage, Article, Wks. 1844, I. 268. She assisted the Scottish subjects against their native sovereign (her jealoused competitrix).
