suffice

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUFFICE, verb intransitive suffi'ze. [Latin sufficio; sub and facio.] To be enough or sufficient; to be equal to the end proposed. To recount Almighty works What words or tongue of seraph can suffice? SUFFICE, verb transitive suffi'ze. To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of. Let it suffice thee; speak no more to me of this matter. Deuteronomy 3:26. Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. John 14:1. Ruth 2:14. 1. To afford; to supply. The pow'r appeas'd, with wind suffic'd the sail. [Not in use.]
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