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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Suffice  \Suf*fice"\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Sufficed};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Sufficing}.]  [OE.  suffisen  OF  soufire  F.  suffire 
  (cf.  suffisant,  p.  pr.),  L.  sufficere  to  put  under  to 
  substitute,  to  avail  for  to  suffice;  sub  under  +  facere  to 
  make  See  {Fact}.] 
  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.




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