(ppl.) a. Obs. Chiefly Sc. [UN-1 7, 8 b, and 5 b.] Not subject to suspicion.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., II. 197. Þe dedis þat Crist dide, ben unsuspect evydence þat Crist is boþe God and man. Ibid. (1388), Ecclus. xxv. 9. I magnefiede nyne thingis vnsuspect of the herte.
1409. in Exch. Rolls Scotl., IV. p. ccxi. Askand thaim to be submitted to thaim and to their counselis unsuspect apon sic complaintis.
c. 1480. Henryson, Fables, Wolf & Lamb, 74. I oblis me rycht heir, That I sall byde ane vnsuspect Assyis.
1512. Reg. Privy Seal Scotl., I. 369/2. Befor the lordis of counsale or utheris unsuspect jugis.
1583. Leg. Bp. St Androis, 139. Grit oethes he sweirs,… And bad thame hald him vnsuspect.
1606. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. I. Tropheis, 1055. David’s foule defect Was yet un-seen, uncensur’d, un-suspect.
1665. Glanvill, Def. Van. Dogm., 83. Though his writings were never so unsuspect and certain in the main.
1678. Sir G. Mackenzie, Crim. Laws Scot., I. xxvi. § 6 (1699), 134. Proved by most unsuspect Witnesses.
