a. [ad. L. suspīriōsus, f. suspīrium deep breathing, sigh, shortness of breath, SUSPIRE sb. Cf. F. suspirieux.]

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  1.  Breathing with difficulty or painfully; chiefly Path. (see quot. 1896).

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1657.  Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., I. IV. lx. 329. Their [sc. hyssop’s] faculties … benefit the suspirious and orthopnoical.

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1657.  Physical Dict., Suspirious, broken winded.

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1859.  Mayne, Expos. Lex., Suspirious,… breathing painfully.

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1876.  Bristowe, Theory & Pract. Med. (1878), 203. Respiration … is then generally slow and suspirious.

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1896.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 665. The respiration … becomes embarrassed and ‘suspirious’; marked, that is, by a slow laboured inspiration followed by a quick expiration and a long pause.

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  2.  Full of sighs, sighing.

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1751.  Hist. Pompey the Little, 96. When the company had enjoyed enough of this spiritual and suspirious conversation, they proceeded in the last place to singing of psalms.

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1809.  Syd. Smith, Methodism, Wks. (1850), 138/1. To estimate what the exertions of the lachrymal and suspirious clergy would be.

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1820.  H. Matthews, Diary Invalid (ed. 2), 223. A suspirious, lacrymose, while-handkerchief business.

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