a. Now rare or Obs. [ad. late L. suspicābilis, f. suspicārī to suspect, f. su- SUB- 24 + spīc-, as in suspicĕre to SUSPECT.]
1. That may be suspected or mistrusted; open to suspicion.
1614. Bp. Hall, Contempl., O. T., VI. Nadab & Abihu. Suddennesse as it is euer iustly suspicable; so then certainly argues anger, when it finds vs in an act of sinne.
1655–87. H. More, App. Antid. (1712), 192. To proceed from what is plain and unsuspected to what is more obscure and suspicable.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey).
1858. J. P. Collier, Shaks. Wks. (ed. 2), I. p. vii. The suspicable (if I may use the word) letter of Jonson to Secretary Cecil.
2. That may be suspected to be so; appearing probable or likely.
1651. H. More, Enthus. Tri. (1712), 31. It is a very suspicable matter that Saturn before the fall was where Mercury, and Mercury where Saturn is. Ibid. (1653), Conject. Cabbal. (1713), 183. It is a very suspicable business that he means no more than empty Space by it.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. § 15. 269. This makes it still more strongly suspicable, that it was really a Design … of the Devil.
Hence † Suspicability, the condition of being open to suspicion.
1660. H. More, Myst. Godl., V. vii. 151. The uncertainty and suspicability of the Story.
