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Suffice
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. 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.
2. To furnish; to supply adequately. [Obs.] The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail. Dryden.