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Suffice   /səfˈaɪs/   Listen
verb
Suffice  v. t.  
1.
To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of. "Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter."
2.
To furnish; to supply adequately. (Obs.) "The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail."



Suffice  v. i.  (past & past part. sufficed; pres. part. sufficing)  To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate. "To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice?"






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"Suffice" Quotes from Famous Books



... not received the two dollars which had been promised him for his two weeks' work, and another one was nearly due. If he could get this money it might, with what he had saved again, suffice to pay his railroad fare to Guilford; and if it would not, he resolved to accept from the skeleton sufficient to make ...
— Toby Tyler • James Otis

... to the finger-board, or carriage of the left hand, I have one thing strongly to recommend to you, which will suffice for all; and that is, the taking a Violin part, either the first or second of a concerto, sonata, or song—anything will serve the purpose—and playing it upon the half-shift, that is, with the first finger ...
— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart

... falling tears, as she found herself thus repeating, nearly word for word, the arguments that had been used by Lady Arabella.] Think of these things, coolly, if you can, but, at any rate, without passion: and then let me have one word in answer. One word will suffice. ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope

... life that, on returning from his journey around the world, he was not made, as he had with good reason fully expected to be made, chief editor of the Boston Journal. We need not go into details of the matter, but suffice it to say, that Carleton was not one to waste time in idle regrets. Indeed, his was a character that could be tested by disappointments, which, in his life, were not a few. Instead of bitterness, came the ripened fruit of patience ...
— Charles Carleton Coffin - War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman • William Elliot Griffis

... zinc-copper couple does not suffice to deodorize the impure spirits, so they must be sent directly to a rectifier. But, in certain cases, it is necessary to follow up the treatment by the pile with another one by electrolysis. The ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 • Various


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