A cool suspense from pleasure and from pain.
Pope.
3. [Cf. F. suspense.] (Law) A temporary cessation of one's right;
suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of
possession of land and rent.
Suspense account (Bookkeeping), an account in which receipts or
disbursements are temporarily entered until their proper position in
the books is determined.
Sus*pense"ly, adv. In suspense. [Obs.] Hales.
Sus*pen`si*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being suspensible.
Sus*pen"si*ble (?), a. Capable of being suspended; capable of being
held from sinking.
Sus*pen"sion (?), n. [Cf. F. suspension, L. suspensio arched work,
imperfect pronunciation. See Suspend.] 1. The act of suspending, or the
state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
2. Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation; as: (a) Of
labor, study, pain, etc. (b) Of decision, determination, judgment,
etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of
evidence to be produced. (c) Of the payment of what is due; as, the
suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank. (d) Of punishment, or
sentence of punishment. (e) Of a person in respect of the exercise of
his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student
or of a clergyman. (f) Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the
suspension of the habeas corpus act.
3. A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the
suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.
4. The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but
undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining;
also, any substance in this state.
5. (Rhet.) A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive
expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or
conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.
6. (Scots Law) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence
condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application
to the lord ordinary.
7. (Mus.) The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the
chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the
concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.
Pleas in suspension (Law), pleas which temporarily abate or suspend a
suit. -- Points of suspension (Mech.), the points, as in the axis or
beam of a balance, at which the weights act, or from which they are
suspended. -- Suspension bridge, a bridge supported by chains, ropes,
or wires, which usually pass over high piers or columns at each end,
and are secured in the ground beyond. -- Suspension of arms (Mil.), a
short truce or cessation of operations agreed on by the commanders of
contending armies, as for burying the dead, making proposal for
surrender or for peace, etc. -- Suspension scale, a scale in which the
platform hangs suspended from the weighing apparatus instead of resting
upon it.
Syn. -- Delay; interruption; intermission; stop.
Sus*pen"sive (?), a. [Cf. F. suspensif. See Suspend.] Tending to
suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay;
uncertain; doubtful. "In suspensive thoughts." Beaumont. "A suspensive
veto." Macaulay.
The provisional and suspensive attitude.
J. Morley.
Suspensive condition (Scots Law), a condition precedent, or a condition
without the performance of which the contract can not be completed.
Sus*pen"sor (?), n. [NL.] 1. A suspensory.
2. (Bot.) The cord which suspends the embryo; and which is attached to
the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.
||Sus`pen*so"ri*um (?), n.; pl. Suspensoria (#). [NL.] (Anat.) Anything
||which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular
||suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them)
||which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most
||vertebrates below mammals.
Sus*pen"so*ry (?), a. 1. Suspended; hanging; depending.
2. Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle.
Ray.