Now dial. (chiefly north.), U.S., or rare arch. [f. prec.] trans. To suspect. (With simple obj. or obj. cl.)
a. 1637. N. Ferrar, trans. Valdés’ 110 Consid. (1638), 310. Suspicioning of himselfe, that if he should grow negligent, he might come to loose his magnanimity.
1834. Kentuckian in New York, I. 64 (Thornton). They began to suspicion, maybe, that they had got the wrong sow by the ear.
1839. Marryat, Diary Amer., Ser. I. II. 212. I suspicion as much.
1853. Louisville (Kentucky) Democrat. It was considered ‘treason’ almost to suspicion him of a mean transaction.
1863. Atkinson, Stanton Grange (1864), 219. They suspicioned all wasn’t reet.
1876. ‘Mark Twain,’ Tom Sawyer, xxvii. Anybody would suspicion us that saw us.
1902. Academy, 5 April, 359. We suspicion a whiff of democracy in this.
