2. To furnish; to supply adequately. [Obs.]
The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail.
Dryden. Sufficience
(Suf*fi"cience) n. Sufficiently. [Obs.]
Sufficiency
(Suf*fi"cien*cy) n. [L. sufficientia: cf. F. suffisance. See Suffice.]
1. The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.
His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted.
Boyle. 2. Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.
A substitute or most allowed sufficiency.
Shak.
I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others.
Eikon Basilike. 3. Adequate substance or means; competence. "An elegant sufficiency." Thomson.
4. Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
5. Conceit; self-confidence; self- sufficiency.
Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance.
Sir W. Temple. Sufficient
(Suf*fi"cient) a. [L. sufficiens, -entis, p. pr. of sufficere: cf. F. suffisant. See Suffice.]
1. Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for
the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.
My grace is sufficient for thee.
2 Cor. xii. 9. 2. Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
Who is sufficient for these things?
2 Cor. ii. 16. 3. Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.
The man is, notwithstanding, sufficient . . . I think I may take his bond.
Shak. 4. Self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content. [R.]
Thou art the most sufficient (I'll say for thee),
Not to believe a thing.
Beau. & Fl. Syn. — Enough; adequate; competent; full; satisfactory; ample.
Sufficiently
(Suf*fi"cient*ly), adv. To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives
content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge
of his official duties.
Sufficing
(Suf*fi"cing) a. Affording enough; satisfying. — Suf*fi"cing*ly, adv. — Suf*fi"cing*ness, n.
Suffisance
(Suf*fi"sance) n. [F. See Sufficiency.] Sufficiency; plenty; abundance; contentment. [Obs.]
He could in little thing have suffisaunce.
Chaucer. Suffisant
(Suf*fi"sant) a. Sufficient. [Obs.]
