Suspensory Definition

sə-spĕnsə-rē
suspensories
adjective
Suspending, supporting, or sustaining.
A suspensory muscle or bandage.
Webster's New World
Delaying completion.
American Heritage Medicine
Suspending or delaying, esp. so as to leave something undecided.
Webster's New World
Held in suspension.
Wiktionary
Holding in suspension.
Wiktionary
noun
A support or truss.
American Heritage Medicine
A suspensory muscle or bandage.
Webster's New World
An athletic supporter.
American Heritage Medicine
A mesh fabric pouch for supporting the scrotum, on a band around the hips.
Webster's New World

Something that suspends.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • suspensory bandage

Other Word Forms of Suspensory

Noun

Singular:
suspensory
Plural:
suspensories

Origin of Suspensory

Suspensory Sentence Examples

  • The Ancients had a suspensory veto, but no initiative in legislation.

  • He advocated the suspensory veto, and the establishment of trial by jury in civil causes, but voted with the Left against the system of two chambers.

  • The bourgeoisie, conscious of their opportunity, decided for a single chamber against the will of the noblesse; against that of the king they declared it permanent, and, if they accorded him a suspensory veto, this was only in order to guard them against the extreme assertion of popular rights.

  • I o, Suspensory ligament of fetlock.

  • The vet injected the suspensory ligament which sorted that problem out.

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Words Starting With

SSUSUS

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YRYORY

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