Category:Suggest

Sug*gest", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suggested; p. pr. & vb. n. Suggesting.] Etym: [l. suggestus, p.p. of suggerere to put under, Furnish, suggest; sub under + gerere to carry, to bring. See jest.]

1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought Of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas. . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of Sensation and reflection. Locke.

2. To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, To suggest a difficulty.

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.

Defn: to make suggestions; to tempt. [obs.] And ever weaker grows through acted crime, or seeming-genial, venial Fault, recurring and suggesting still. Tennyson.