Suggestion

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Charge; complaint; accusation.

II. Suggestion ·noun The act of suggesting; presentation of an Idea.

III. Suggestion ·add. ·noun The control of the mind of an hypnotic subject by ideas in the mind of the hypnotizer.

IV. Suggestion ·noun That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.

V. Suggestion ·noun Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.

VI. Suggestion ·noun The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative;

— a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.