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Word Meanings - SUSPENSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed. (more info) 1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended;

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A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed. (more info) 1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook. 2. Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation; as: Of labor, study, pain, etc. Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced. Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank. Of punishment, or sentence of punishment. Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman. Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act. 3. A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition. 4. The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.

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  • INTERVALLUM
    An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
  • DORMANCY
    The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
  • STOPPING
    A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.
  • STOPPAGE
    The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
  • INTERRUPTION
    1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
  • INTERVAL
    Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
  • EXPECTATION
    The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age. Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust. (more info) 1. The act
  • STOPPER
    A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something. Totten. (more info) 1. One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent
  • INTERMISSION
    The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever. 4. Intervention; interposition. Heylin. Syn. --
  • RESERVATION
    1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed
  • STOPPED
    Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants . H. Sweet.
  • PAUSER
    One who pauses. Shak.
  • RECURRENCE; RECURRENCY
    The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse. I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. I. Taylor.
  • SUSPENSION
    A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed. (more info) 1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended;
  • ABEYANCE
    Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. Note: When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it as always potentially existing,
  • CESSATION
    A ceasing of discontinuance, as of action, whether termporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward.
  • INTERPELLATION
    1. The act of interpelling or interrupting; interruption. "Continual interpellations." Bp. Hall. 2. The act of interposing or interceding; intercession. Accepted by his interpellation and intercession. Jer. Taylor. 3. An act of interpellating,
  • INTERVAL; INTERVALE
    A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. The woody intervale just beyond
  • STOPPING-OUT
    A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.
  • INTERLOCUTION
    An intermediate act or decree before final decision. Ayliffe. 3. Hence, intermediate argument or discussion. (more info) interlocutus, to speak between; inter between + loqui to speak: cf. 1. Interchange of speech; dialogue; conversation;
  • UNEXPECTATION
    Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
  • PREEXPECTATION
    Previous expectation.
  • INTERPAUSE
    An intermission.
  • PRESERVATION
    The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy
  • NONACQUIESCENCE
    Refusal of acquiescence; failure to yield or comply.

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