suffice

«suffice» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: be enough — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

be enough

part of speech

verb

meaning for a pupil

To be enough for a purpose. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "suffice" is a formal word for "be enough," and we do not usually put "not" after it as in "suffice not." The sentences use that old word order.

examples

• And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for; (Torah LEV.14.30, JPS 1917) tree →
• If words suffice not, blows must follow. (Three hundred Aesop’s fables / Translated by George Fyler Townsend) tree →
• This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose means suffice not for that which pertaineth to his cleansing. (Torah LEV.14.32, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

suffice

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 17 (Torah 12, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.9 (Torah alone 28.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «suffice» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.