ppl. a. [f. SUGGEST v. + -ED1.
The first three senses are not represented in the vb. but are derivable from senses of L. suggerere.]
† 1. ? Furnished, supplied. Obs.
1592. Soliman & Pers., II. iii. 5. Loue, by whose suggisted power Erastus vsde such dice, as, being false, Ran not by Fortune, but necessitie.
† 2. (Falsely) imputed. Obs.
1640. G. Sandys, Christs Passion, 20. Whom we accuse of no suggested crimes.
† 3. Suborned. Obs.
1647. Lilly, Chr. Astrol., clxi. 678. He will receive Punishment by meanes of suggested Witnesses, or sinister Informations.
4. Proposed, prompted, insinuated.
1660. Milton, Free Commw., Wks. 1851, V. 424. All those suggested Fears and Difficulties easily overcome. Ibid. (1667), P. L., V. 699. Hee Tells the suggested cause.
a. 1820. T. Brown, Philos. Human Mind (1820), II. xxxiii. 189. In the suggested feelings themselves, there is one striking difference.
1884. trans. Lotzes Logic, 168. We can yet pronounce with perfect certainty that a suggested name is not the right one.
1896. W. R. Newbold, in Pop. Sci. Monthly, L. 220. Suggested hallucinations and ideas do not differ in any respect from spontaneous hallucinations and automatic ideas.
Hence Suggestedness (see quot.).
180212. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), I. 293. Suggestedness...: the quality of having been assisted by suggestions to every good purpose.