ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.] In various senses of the verb SUPPRESS.
1620. T. Granger, Div. Logike, 155. Earth-creeping sprigge, base bred, of head supprest.
c. 1790. Cowper, Comm. Milton’s P. L., Wks. 1837, XV. 298. The author possesses more fire than he shows. There is suppressed force in it.
1791. Burke, Th. French Aff., Wks. 1808, VII. 44. The suppressed faction, though suppressed, exists. Under the ashes, the embers of the late commotions are still warm.
1801. Med. Jrnl., V. 63. The suppressed perspirable matter.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., I. xxiv. With smile suppressed and shy.
1843. Borrow, Bible in Spain, xv. Recently removed from some of the suppressed convents.
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., xiv. (1879), 307. The suppressed action of the volcanos.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, v. A voice a little altered by some suppressed feeling.
1863. Hotten, Hand-bk. Topogr., 103/2. Sm. 8vo, with the rare Suppressed leaf.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 9. Symptoms … known as … ‘suppressed’ ‘anomalous’ or ‘latent gout.’
b. Bot. Said of parts normally or typically present, but not found in the particular case in question. (Usually as predicate or pa. pple.)
1849. Balfour, Man. Bot., § 647. In Tropæolum pentaphyllum … there are three petals suppressed, as shown by the position of the two remaining ones; there are two rows of stamens, in each of which one is awanting, and there are two carpels suppressed.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 410. Carex Bœnninghauseniana…. Bracts sometimes wholly suppressed.
Hence Suppressedly adv., in a suppressed tone; with restrained utterance or the like.
1861. Carlisle (PA) Herald, 15 March, 1/7. At this the crowded galleries applauded suppressedly.
1867. C. J. Smith, Syn. & Antonyms, s.v. Aloud, Inaudibly. Suppressedly.
1873. Miss Broughton, Nancy, I. 24. I have … said ‘good-night’ in a tone as suppressedly hostile as his own. Ibid. (1880), Sec. Th., II. iv. They both laugh low and suppressedly.
1887. Hardy, Woodlanders, III. v. 87. His eyes now suppressedly looked his pleasure.
