The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suffice \Suf*fice"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sufficed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Sufficing.] [OE. suffisen, OF. soufire, F. suffire
(cf. suffisant, p. pr.), L. sufficere to put under, to
substitute, to avail for, to suffice; sub under + facere to
make. See Fact.]
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.
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vb. (en-past of: suffice)
Usage examples of "sufficed".
It was a proof how much a single evening had sufficed to increase and to refine the love of the Athenian for Ione, that whereas he had confided to Clodius the secret of his first interview with her, and the effect it had produced on him, he now felt an invincible aversion even to mention to him her name.
I write of an epoch in which days sufficed to ripen the ordinary fruits of years.
Lydian lute: and verses, which the inspiration of the moment sufficed to weave.
Till she had been under the guardianship of the kindly Greek, that staff had sufficed to conduct the poor blind girl from corner to corner of Pompeii.
The first glance of the visitor now entering the apartment sufficed to undeceive so erring a fancy.
But the consciousness of innocence scarcely sufficed to support him when the gaze of men no longer excited his haughty valor, and he was left to loneliness and silence.
Politics and private friendships, the only keys to the vaults, had amply sufficed to open them wide--or to seal them tight.
Drag sufficed to outdo the wind, and it crunched through the overlying glaze of ice.
Melisande had held somewhat back, and whatever it was, it sufficed for blackmail.
While the opening in the clouds made by the discharge was not wide, yet it sufficed to give us a view of a portion of the curving shore of the lake, which was ablaze with electric lights.
Hence it was not necessary for Him to assume them all, but only such as sufficed to satisfy for the sin of the whole nature.
Now in order to manifest the truth of the Resurrection, it sufficed for Him to appear several times before them, to speak familiarly to them, to eat and drink, and let them touch Him.
Further, if it sufficed to add a little, then as a consequence it would suffice to throw one drop of water into an entire cask.
The clothing that had once sufficed for a tutor had seemed paltry indeed among landed gentry and had proven a painful embarrassment to him on more than one occasion.
A sorely garbled comment, closely resembling an oath, sufficed as a promise of compliance.