Suspensive adj. Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful. "In suspensive thoughts.""A suspensive veto.""The provisional and suspensive attitude."
Suspensive condition (Scots Law), a condition precedent, or a condition without the performance of which the contract can not be completed.
... dream. He had some outward cares as to the place; he kept a horse in the stable, where St. John had kept half a dozen, and he had the gardener look after that as well as the shrubs and vegetables; but all went on in a suspensive and provisional sort. In the mean time Rosalie's charm grew upon him; everything that she had said or looked, was hourly and daily sweeter and dearer; her truth was intoxicating, beyond the lures of other ... — Questionable Shapes • William Dean Howells Read full book for free!
... has come to the full stop, the reader may feel the sentence to be incomplete. In other words, keep your reader in suspense. Suspense is caused (1) by placing the "if-clause" first, and not last, in a conditional sentence; (2) by placing participles before the words they qualify; (3) by using suspensive conjunctions, e.g. not only, either, partly, on the one hand, in ... — How to Write Clearly - Rules and Exercises on English Composition • Edwin A. Abbott Read full book for free!
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