Suggest, 1) to insinuate, to intimate, to infuse: (jealousy) “gives false alarms, --eth mutiny,” Ven. 651. “what spirit, what devil, --s this imagination?” Wiv. III, 3, 230. “if secret powers s. but truth to my divining thoughts,” H6C IV, 6, 69. “this, as you say, --ed at some time when his soaring insolence shall touch the people,” Cor. II, 1, 269.
2) to prompt or inform underhand, to whisper: “two loves I have of comfort and despair, which like two spirits do s. me still,” Sonn. 144, 2. “he did s. his soon-believing adversaries,” R2 I, 1, 101. “we must s. the people in what hatred he still hath held them,” Cor. II, 1, 261.
3) to tempt, to seduce: “his boast of Lucrece' sovereignty --ed this proud issue of a king,” Lucr. 37. “tender youth is soon --ed,” Gent. III, 1, 34. “those heavenly eyes, that look into these faults, --ed us to make,” LLL V, 2, 780. “to s. thee from thy master,” All's IV, 5, 47. “what Eve, what serpent, hath --ed thee to make a second fall of cursed man?” R2 III, 4, 75. “all other devils that s. by treasons,” H5 II, 2, 114. “--s the king to this last costly treaty,” H8 I, 1, 164. they (devils) “do s. at first with heavenly shows,” Oth. II, 3, 358.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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