Crossword clues for suspending
suspending
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspend \Sus*pend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suspended; p. pr. & vb. n. Suspending.] [F. suspendre, or OF. souspendre (where the prefix is L. subtus below, from sub under), L. suspendere, suspensum; pref. sus- (see Sub-) + pendere to hang. See Pedant, and cf. Suspense, n.]
To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
To make to depend; as, God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of obedience and holiness of life. [Archaic]
--Tillotson.-
To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
Suspend your indignation against my brother.
--Shak.The guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so near At once suspends their courage and their fear.
--Denham. To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion.
--Locke.-
To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club.
Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood for ceremonies which are on all hands acknowledged indifferent.
--Bp. Sanderson. To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body.
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(Chem.) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
To suspend payment (Com.), to cease paying debts or obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc.
Syn: To hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay; hinder; debar.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of suspend English)
Usage examples of "suspending".
He was, indeed, while President, violently denounced by the opposition as a tyrant and a usurper, for having gone beyond his constitutional powers in authorizing or permitting the temporary suppression of newspapers, and in wantonly suspending the writ of habeas corpus and resorting to arbitrary arrests.
MAJOR-GENERAL Dix, New York: Yesterday I was induced to telegraph the officer in military command at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, suspending the execution of Charles Carpenter, to be executed tomorrow for desertion.
Not only so, but I believe Indiana once or twice, if not Ohio, petitioned the General Government for the privilege of suspending that provision and allowing them to have slaves.
We are not willing for the boy to be shot, but we think it as well that his trial go regularly on, suspending execution until further order from me and reporting to me.
Italy, and threatening that he himself would punish his delay or hesitation, by suspending the usual allowance of his household.
But this truce of twelve years, which was enforced by the wise and vigorous government of Valentinian, by suspending the repetition of mutual injuries, contributed to soften the manners, and abate the prejudices, of the religious factions.
The distinction of two governments, which soon produced the separation of two nations, will justify my design of suspending the series of the Byzantine history, to prosecute, without interruption, the disgraceful, but memorable, reign of Honorius.
But as the Barbarian despised, or affected to despise, the Romans of the East, whom he had so often vanquished, he soon declared his resolution of suspending the easy conquest, till he had achieved a more glorious and important enterprise.
A halter that had been used in suspending a criminal, when tied round the head, prevented headache.
Princess Cruise liner trying to return from Bermuda, the final bell ring of the New York stock exchange, the last clap of the gavel suspending Congress eight months ago.