sufficiency (sufishensi)

[As sufficience (see -cy).] 1. The state or character of being sufficient; adequacy. Some of ye cheefe of ye company, perceive ing ye mariners to feare ye suffisiencie of ye shipe, as appeared by their mutterings, they entred into serious consulltation with Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 75. Boyle . ye mr. His sufficiency is such that he bestows and po e es, his plenty being unexhausted. We know the satisfactorine of justice, the suficiency of truth. Emerson, Succe . of sufficing. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 323. suffisancet (suf'i-zans), n. [Early mod. E. also suffisaunce; No man is wrecched but himself hit wene, And he that hath himself hath suffisaunce . Chaucer, Fortune, 1. 26. Be payed with litelle, content with suffisance . Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 27. suffisantt, a. [ME. suffisant , suffisaunt , suffisant , suffisaunt , sufficien (t-)s, sufficient: see sufficient .] Sufficient capable; able. He was lyk a knyght, And suffisaunt of persone and of might. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1067. suffisantlyt, adv . [ME. suffisantly ; suffisant + -ly 2.] Sufficiently. Chaucer , Prol. to Astrolabe. suffix (su-fiks'), v.t. [ L.suffix us , subfix us , pp. of suffigere , subfigere , fasten below, fasten or fix on, sub , under, below, + figere , fasten, fix: see fix , v.] To attach at the end: specifically used of adding or annexing a letter or syllable, a suffix. God could anywhere sufflaminate and subvert the beginnings of wicked designs. Barrow , Sermon on the Gunpowder Plot. sufflate (su-flat'), v. t.; pret. and pp. sufflated , ppr. sufflating. [ It. soffiare = Sp. soplar = Pg. soprar = F. souffler ), blow up from below, inflate, sub, under, + flare, blow: see blow1, flatus.] To blow up; inflate; also, to inspire. [Rare.] An inflam'd zeal-burning mind Sufflated by the Holy Wind. T. Ward, England's Reformation, iii. sufflation (su-fla's hon), n. [ sufflatio (n-), a blowing or puffing up, sufflare , blow up: see sufflate.] The act of blowing up or inflating. [Rare.] Imp . Dict.