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suspect adjective & noun2. ME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin suspectus pa. pple of suspicere SUSPECT verb.]
A. adjective. Suspected; regarded with suspicion or distrust; deserving suspicion, not sound or trustworthy. (Foll. by of the evil etc. suspected.) ME.
have suspect, hold suspect be suspicious of, suspect.
W. C. Williams His praise of music and..interest in it..were to me always suspect. P. Carey The skin glistened like a suspect apple which had been waxed.
b. noun. A person suspected of an offence, evil intention, etc.; a person of questionable character, esp. one under surveillance as such. L16.
? Obsolete as adjective after E18 and as noun after E17, until revived in E19 after French use of the word for 'a person suspected of hostility or indifference to the Revolution'.