"Suspend" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
To interrupt; to cause to cease for a time; to stay, delay, or hinder; to discontinue temporarily, but with an ex-, pectation or purpose of resumption.' To for-bid a public officer, attorney, or ecclesiastical person from performing his duties or exercising his functions for a more or less definite interval of time. See Insurance Co. v. Aiken,1 82 Va. 428; Stack v. o’Hara, 08 Pa. 232; Reeside v. U. S., 8 wall. 42, 19 L. Ed. 318 : williston v. Camp, 9 Mont 88, 22 Pac. 501; Dyer v. Dyer, 17 R. I. 547, 23 AtL 910; State v. Melvin, 166 Mo. 565, 66 S. W. 534; Poe ▼. State, 72 Tex. 625,10 S. W. 732. See Sus-PEJiSioN. . .
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.
To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding;
to interrupt; to delay; to stay.
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.
To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop
payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a
commercial firm or a bank).
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.
To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to
suspend one's judgment or opinion.
To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by
stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
Their faces were inches apart now, and he traced her lips with one finger, lightly, lightly, then placed his lips there as if he’d drawn them into being.
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