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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of suffice.

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suffice + -eth

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Examples

  • To him that understandeth, that word sufficeth, and to repeat it often is pleasing to him that loveth it.

    XXXIV. Book III: On Inward Consolation. That to Him who loveth God is Sweet above all Things and in all Things 1909

  • But, O our lord the Imam, 'tis my wish first of all things to look upon her and see if she be pure or otherwise; and, as regarding her singular comeliness, my convicion is that thy word sufficeth and thine avouchment is veridical.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Wah! and such an instrument in the hands of the discerning and the dexterous, and the discreet and the judicious, and them gifted with determination, is't not such as sufficeth for the overturning of empires and systems, O my mistress, fair one, sapphire of this city?

    The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • Wah! and such an instrument in the hands of the discerning and the dexterous, and the discreet and the judicious, and them gifted with determination, is't not such as sufficeth for the overturning of empires and systems, O my mistress, fair one, sapphire of this city?

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Wah! and such an instrument in the hands of the discerning and the dexterous, and the discreet and the judicious, and them gifted with determination, is't not such as sufficeth for the overturning of empires and systems, O my mistress, fair one, sapphire of this city?

    The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • I am going to be writing about the free beer attitude of the Internet, sufficeth to say I think it will come to an end simply because most will work out that it is not practical.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • I am going to be writing about the free beer attitude of the Internet, sufficeth to say I think it will come to an end simply because most will work out that it is not practical.

    The difference between free speech and free beer 2009

  • “That which I have seen of them sufficeth me; and now I would have thee show me thine own city.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And all and each of the folk gave him some grievous word, berating him with sharp speech, and shooting at him some shaft or reproach, albeit one said, “Let him be; that which hath befallen him sufficeth him,” till he again fell down in

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The fisherman thus resumed, O my brother, since this is the case, what I have seen sufficeth me, for

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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