all sufficient

& s. A. As adjective: 1. Sufficient for everything. "Books and schooling are absolutely nece ary to education, but not all sufficient ." -J. S. Mill : Political Economy (1848), vol. i, bk. ii., ch. vii., § 2, p. 330. 2. In all respects sufficient. "Here, then, is an all - sufficient warrant for the a ertion of objective existence." Herbert Spencer: Psychol . , 2nd ed. (1872), vol. ii, p. 452, § 448. B. As substantive: The all-sufficient Being -God. "Through this [faith] Abraham saw a phœnix-like resurrection of his son, as po ible with God; therefore obeyeth that command of offering his son, believing a metamorphosis po ible with the All - suficient . Whitlock: Manners of the English , p. 544.