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Webster 1913 Edition

Suggest

Sug-gest′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Suggested
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Suggesting
.]
[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
.
Shakespeare
4.
To inform secretly.
[Obs.]
Syn. – To hint; allude to; refer to; insinuate.

Sug-gest′

,
Verb.
I.
To make suggestions; to tempt.
[Obs.]
And ever weaker grows through acted crime,
Or seeming-genial, venial fault,
Recurring and
suggesting
still.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Suggest

SUG'GEST

,
Verb.
T.
[L. suggero,suggestus; sub and gero.]
1.
To hint; to intimate or mention in the first instance; as, to suggest a new mode of cultivation; to suggest a different scheme or measure; to suggest a new idea.
2.
To offer to the mind or thoughts.
Some ideas are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection.
3.
To seduce; to draw to ill by insinuation.
Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested. [Not in use.]
4.
To inform secretly.
We must suggest the people. [Not in use.]

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