suety (suet i)

[ suf-. See sub-. influenced by; sustain; pa through. Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Shak., Tempest, i. 2. 400. When all that seems shall suffer shock. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxxxi. 3. To feel or bear (what is painful, disagreeable, or distre ing); submit to with distre or grief; undergo: as, to suffer acute bodily pain; to suffer grief of mind. At the day of Doom 4 Aungeles, with 4 Trompes, schulle blowen and reysen alle men that hadden sufred Dethe sithe that the World was formed, from Dethe to Lyve. Mandeville , Travels, p. 114. A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment. Prov. xix. 19. It is said all martyrdoms looked mean when they were suffered. Emerson , Experience. Each had suffer'd some exceeding wrong. Tennyson, Geraint. 4. To refrain from hindering; allow; permit; tolerate. I prayed Pieres to pulle adown an apple, and he wolde, And suffre me to a aye what sauoure it hadde. Piers Plowman (B), xvi. 74. Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not. Mark x. 14. Heaven will not suffer honest men to perish. Fletcher (and Mas singer?), Lovers' Progre , ii. 4. My Lord Sandwich suffers his beard to grow on his upper lip more than usual. Pepys , Diary, II. 347. They live only as pardoned men; and how pitiful is the condition of being only suffered. Steele , Spectator, No. 438. 51. To tolerate abstention from. Master More by no meanes would admit of any diuision, nor suffer his men from finishing their fortifications. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, II. 130. =Syn. 2. To feel, bear, experience, go through.-4. Al low , Permit , Consent to , etc. See allow1 . II. in trans. 11. To have endurance; bear evils bravely. Now looke that atempree be thy brydel, And for the beste ay suffre to the tide. Chaucer , Troilus, i. 954. 2. To feel or undergo pain of body or mind; bear what is distre ing distre ing or inconvenient. If I be false, Send me to suffer in those punishments You speak of; kill me! Beau. and Fl., Phil aster, iii. 1. Raw meat, unle in very small bits, and large pieces of albumen, .,... injure the leaves, which seem to suffer, like animals, from a surfeit. Darwin, Insectiv. Plants, p. 130. 3. To be injured; sustain lo or damage. The kingdom's honour suffers in this cruelty. Fletcher, Wife for a Month, ii. 1. Thus the English prosper every where, and the French suffer . Baker , Chronicles, p. 122. 4. To undergo punishment; especially, to be put to death. The father was first condemned to sufer upon a day appointed, and the son afterwards the day following. Clarendon . 5. To allow; permit. Remayning as diuers languages and dialects will suffer , almost the same. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 437. Still dost thou suffer , heaven! will no flame, No heat of sin, make thy just wrath to boil! 6t. To wait; hold out. manner; tolerably. Add is on , tr. of Claudian, in Anc. Medals, ii. sufferance (suf'er-ans), n . [Early mod. E. also suffer a unce ; ME.suffrance , soverans , france , F. souffrance = Pr. sufrensa , sufransa = It. sofferenza , L. suffer entia , endurance, tolera- tion, sufferen ( t- ) s , ppr. of sufferre , endure, suf- fer: see suffer .] 1. The state of suffering; the bearing of pain or other evil; endurance; suf- fering; misery. He must not only die the death, But thy unkindne shall the death draw out To lingering sufferance. Shak ., M. for M., ii. 4. 167. Sufferance Of former trials hath too strongly arm'd me. Ford, Fancies, iv. 1. All praise be to my Maker given! Long sufferance is one path to heaven. Scott, Rokeby, iv. 24. A grievous wreck and sufferance 21. Damage; lo ; injury. On most part of their fleet. Shak ., Othello, ii. 1. 23. 3. Submi ion under difficult or oppre ive circumstances; patient endurance; patience. Therfore hath this wise worthy knyght, To lyve in ese, suffrance hire bihight. Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 60. Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. Shak ., M. of V., i. 3. 111. Sir, I have learn'd a prisoner's sufferance , And will obey. Beau . and Fl . , King and No King, i. 1. 4. Consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; allowance; permi ion; leave. And, sers, syn he so is be souerans of goddis, Vs may falle here by fortune a fulfaire gifte, That shuld lelly be laght, as me leue thinke. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3154. Either dispysest thou the riches of his goodne e, pacyence, and long suffer a unce ? Bible of 1551, Rom. ii. 4. Whose freedom is by suff'rance , and at will Of a superior, he is never free. Cowper , Task, v. 363. 5. In customs, a permi ion granted for the shipment of certain goods. Bill of sufferance. See bill3.- Estate by sufferance or at sufferance, in law, the interest in land recognized by the law in a person who came into po e ion by lawful right but is keeping it after the title has ceased, without positive leave of the owner. Such person is called a tenant at sufferance. On sufferance, by pa ive allowance, permi ion, or consent; without being actively interfered with or prevented; without being positively forbidden: often with a sense of blame or disparagement. - Sufferance wharf, a wharf on which goods may be landed before any duty is paid. Such wharves are appointed by the commi ioners of the customs. sufferantt (suf'er-ant), a. and n. [ Pure suffraunt was her wit. Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 1010. And thou a god so suffer ant and remi e. Heywood , Dialogues (Works, ed. Pearson (1874), VI. 157). II. n. One who is patient and enduring. Forthi, sle with res on al this hete, Men seyn the suffraunt overcomth, parde. Chaucer , Troilus, iv. 1584. B. Jonson, Sejanus, iv. 5. sufferer (suf'ér-ér), n. [ suffer + -er1.] 1. One who suffers; a person who endures or un sufferer dergoes pain, either of body or of mind; one sustaining evil of any kind. IMG:content-2427.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Qualification for any purpose; ability; casuffix (suf'iks), n. [F. suffixe = Sp. sufijo = pacity; efficiency. Thro' Waters and thro' Flames I'll go, Suff'rer and Solace of thy Woe. Prior, To a Young Gentleman in Love. hath with sufficiencie discharged the same, both in this IMG:content-2428.png:[blocks in formation] To each his suff'rings ; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan. Gray, Ode on Prospect of Eton College. Meeting for Sufferings, in the Society of Friends, an organization, established in 1675, to investigate and relieve the sufferings of those who were distrained for tithes, etc. It acts for the Yearly Meeting ad interim. The name is still retained in England and Ireland, but in all the American yearly meetings except that of Philadelphia the body is now called the Representative Meeting. Seventh Month 21st. - To Westminster meeting-house at twelve o'clock; about fifty Friends of the Meeting for Sufferings met, and afterwards proceeded to James's Palace to present the addre to the Queen Victoria. William Allen, Journal, 1837.