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Definition of Sufficed
1. suffice [v] - See also: suffice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sufficed
Literary usage of Sufficed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"sufficed to show that the enclosure belonged to some needy Frenchman living in
a country not his own, and struggling probably with the ordinary evils of ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"... lighting, etc., and the small charges made for admission (2d., b'd., and Is.)
have hitherto just sufficed to maintain the institution. ..."
3. The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusaders by Walter Scott (1878)
"A handful of dates, and a morsel of coarse barley-bread, sufficed to relieve the
hunger of the latter, whose education had habituated him to the fare of the ..."
4. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1842)
"... if somo sent nowe presently the said Pagett unto the owne Conscience hare
sufficed, yet his High- his ..."
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