a. Also 8 erron. -ible. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] That may or should be suspected; open to suspicion.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, V. lviii. 363. Evermore is parade and obsequiousness suspectable. Ibid. (a. 1761), (1768), III. lxii. 318. As poverty is generally suspectible, the Widow must be got handsomely aforehand.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), V. 730. Infirm and suspectable evidence.
1859. W. Anderson, Disc., Ser. II. (1860), 198. You … might show yourself … of suspectable profession, if you were complaisant.
1887. Yorksh. Post, 23 Feb., 5/7. It is only in this direction that Europe is suspectable.
