ppl. a. [f. SUSPECT v. + -ED1.]
1. That one suspects of something evil or wrong; regarded with suspicion; imagined guilty or faulty; suspect.
1559. in Strype, Ann. Ref. (1709), I. App. xi. 35. If any … disagreed from his forefathers, he is … to be judged suspected.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 150. That all thynges myght be decided by mete and no suspected persones.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 51. Noble men … that are bydden to dynner of theyr enemies or suspected frendes.
1563. Hyll, Art Garden. (1593), 138. By eating of Garlike, a man may the safelier goe into a suspected aire, and by stinking places.
1610. Heywood, Gold. Age, II. i. The Iron bar’d dores and the suspected vaults, The Barricadoed gates.
1615. Manwood, Lawes Forest, xxiv. § 5. 241. All others found in the Forest searching and going after a suspected maner.
1662. Stillingfl., Orig. Sacræ, I. iv. § 1. Their eldest Historians are of suspected credit even among themselves.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Diary, 16 July 1649. To … walke … with our guns ready in all suspected places.
1794. Vancouver, Agric. Cambr., 125. I became here a suspected person, and could obtain no information whatever.
1826. G. J. Bell, Comm. Laws Scot. (ed. 5), I. 553. She must have … a bill of health when she sails from a suspected port.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xviii. IV. 234. Whether the danger of trusting the suspected persons or the danger of removing them were the greater.
1861. Chambers’ Encycl., II. 95/1. A suspected bill [of health], commonly called a touched patent or bill, imports that there were rumours of an infectious disorder.
1914. Times, 30 Dec., 10/1. The search and detention of suspected ships.
2. That one suspects to exist, or to be such; imagined possible or likely.
1706. Stanhope, Paraphr., III. 495. Defamation does not use to stop at manifest, no, nor at suspected Vice.
1831. Scott, Ct. Robt., xxvii. In the character of a more than suspected traitor.
1904. Verney Mem., II. 11. Sir Ralph was suddenly arrested,… by the Lord Protector’s soldiers, as a suspected Royalist.
Hence Suspectedly adv., so as to be suspected; Suspectedness, state of being suspected.
1609. [see SUSPECTLY, quot. a. 1577].
1656. Artif. Handsom., 93. Those, who … have … either undiscernibly … or suspectedly … or declaredly … used such additaments.
1658. J. Robinson, Stone, 96. Some of Hipocrates Aphorisms … by losing their lustre, contract a suspectednesse.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 311. A many Pseudo-Cabbalists have brought the very name of Cabbala into a suspectedness.
