a. Obs. [a. OF. suspectieux, f. suspection: see prec. and -IOUS.] = SUSPICIOUS.
14[?]. Chaucer’s Clerk’s T., 540 (Corpus MS.). Suspeccious [other MSS. Suspecious] was þe defame of þis man.
1422. Yonge, trans. Secreta Secret., lix. 235. Who-so hath the Paas litill and Swyfte, he is suspeccious, of euyl will.
1477. Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 57. He that trusteth in this worlde is receiued, & he that is suspectious is in grete sorowe.
1521. in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. I. 284. Ye shall shew unto her Grace, the keping that the King her son is in is right susspectious.
a. 1558. in J. R. Boyle, Hedon (1875), App. 95. That no man harbor within his house anye wavering or suspeccyous persone.
Hence † Suspectiousness. rare–1.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. clxvii. 187. Se you any suspectiousnes in this mater?
