SUFFICE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate. Chaucer. To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice Milton.

2.
v.

To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of. Spenser. Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. Deut. iii. 26.

3.
v.

To furnish; to supply adequately. [Obs.] The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail. Dryden.


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