3. To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt. [Obs.]

Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested.
Shak.

4. To inform secretly. [Obs.]

Syn. — To hint; allude to; refer to; insinuate.

Suggest
(Sug*gest"), v. i. To make suggestions; to tempt. [Obs.]

And ever weaker grows through acted crime,
Or seeming-genial, venial fault,
Recurring and suggesting still.
Tennyson.

Suggester
(Sug*gest"er) n. One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.

Suggestion
(Sug*ges"tion) n. [F. suggestion, L. suggestio.]

1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

2. That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.

Why do I yield to that suggestion?
Shak.

3. Charge; complaint; accusation. [Obs.] "A false suggestion." Chaucer.

4. (Law) Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.

5. (Physiol. & Metaph.) The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; — a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.

Syn. — Hint; allusion; intimation; insinuation. — Suggestion, Hint. A hint is the briefest or most indirect mode of calling one's attention to a subject. A suggestion is a putting of something before the mind for consideration, an indirect or guarded mode of presenting argument or advice. A hint is usually something slight or covert, and may by merely negative in its character. A suggestion is ordinarily intended to furnish us with some practical assistance or direction. "He gave me a hint of my danger, and added some suggestions as to the means of avoiding it."

Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
Pope.

Arthur, whom they say is killed to-night
On your suggestion.
Shak.

Suggestive
(Sug*gest"ive) a. Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation.Sug*gest"ive*ly, adv. Sug*gest"ive*ness, n.

Suggestment
(Sug*gest"ment) n. Suggestion. [R.]

They fancy that every thought must needs have an immediate outward suggestment.
Hare.

Suggestress
(Sug*gest"ress) n. A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.

Suggil
(Sug"gil) v. t. [L. suggillare, sugillare, suggillatum, sugillatum, literally, to beat black and blue.] To defame. [Obs.] Abp. Parker.

Suggillate
(Sug"gil*late) v. t. [See Suggil.] To beat livid, or black and blue. Wiseman.


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