What does "suspect" mean?

Suspect: Suspected; distrusted. [Obs.] What I can do or offer is suspect. Milton.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Suspicion. [Obs.] Chaucer. So with suspect, with fear and grief, dismayed. Fairfax.
  2. 3.One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime. Bacon.
  3. 4.To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease. Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by producing to know more. Bacon. From her hand I could suspect no ill. Milton.
  4. 5.To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
  5. 6.To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story. Addison.
  6. 7.To look up to; to respect. [Obs.]
  7. 8.To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious. If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at time. Shak.

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