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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



... unreasonable request, nor to return an unjustifiable refusal. Should denial seem imperative, strive to imitate that English statesman who could refuse more gracefully than others could grant. The following examples will suffice: ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... the moment was, not more wild land, but an outlet for the products yielded by the land they already possessed. The vital importance to the Westerners of the free navigation of the Mississippi has already been shown. Suffice it to say that the control of the mouth of the great Father of Waters was of direct personal consequence to almost every tree feller, every backwoods farmer, every land owner, every townsman, who dwelt ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume Four - Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 • Theodore Roosevelt
... that flowed from the lips of Martin Rattler and Barney O'Flannagan on this happy occasion, or the feelings that filled their swelling hearts. The speechless amazement of Martin, the ejaculatory exclamations of the Baron Fagoni, the rapid questions and brief replies, are all totally indescribable. Suffice it to say that for full quarter of an hour they exclaimed, shouted, and danced round each other, without coming to any satisfactory knowledge of how each had got to the same place, except that Barney at last discovered that Martin had travelled there by chance, ...
— Martin Rattler • R.M. Ballantyne
... contribution boxes and bags are seen floating about rapidly nearly every other Sunday, for either home expenses or perishing Indians; but at Fishergate Baptist Chapel incidental requirements are blended with the pew rents; and for other purposes about two collections annually suffice. That is all, and that ought to make attendance at such a ...
— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus
... volume would not suffice to detail a tithe of the sights and scenes of thrilling and dreadful interest that occurred in that small South American town on the occasion of the earthquake. Yet, awful though these were, they were as nothing ...
— Lost in the Forest - Wandering Will's Adventures in South America • R.M. Ballantyne


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