[f. SUSPEND v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb SUSPEND.
1. = SUSPENSION 1.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 80. Sumtyme men weren forboden of trewe prestis to vse & do sacramentis in open cursed lif, & þat is trewe suspendynge.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 30. Sentence of cursyng, of suspendyng, of enterdyȝtyng aȝens kyng, lord, baroun.
1585. [R. Browne], Answ. Cartwright, 15. He seemeth to allowe also their suspendings of preachers.
2. = SUSPENSION 2, 4.
1524. Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 108. The cause of the said kirkis suspending.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 595/2. A suspendinge of the vse of ye wyttes.
1673. Essex Papers (Camden), I. 49. I long very much for an answer concerning ye Rules. I must needs say that ye Letter for ye suspending of them … has bin of great disadvantage to me.
1696. Sc. Acts Will. III. (1823), X. 66/1. His Majestie … Ordains that in case of calumnious suspending the Lords of Session Decern a third part more then is Decerned for Expences.
† 3. = SUSPENSION 7. Obs.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 269/1. By the fyrst thre suspendynges that he had ought to be noted he was suspended or taken vp fro the loue of the world and he was suspendyd that is to say ententyf in heuenly loue And he was suspended that is to saye wrappyd in the grace … of God.
