Verb

(en verb)

To demand ownership of.

To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.

To demand ownership or right to use for land.

(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.

To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

* John Locke

We must know how the first ruler, from whom anyone claims , came by his authority.

To proclaim.

(Spenser)

To call or name.

(Spenser)

Verb

(en verb)

To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.

to suspect the presence of disease

* Milton

From her hand I could suspect no ill.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected .}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected , but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}

To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).

to suspect the truth of a story

(Addison)

To believe (someone) to be guilty.

To have suspicion.

(obsolete) To look up to; to respect.