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"ref": "1983, John MacArthur, Spiritual Gifts, page 98",
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"text": "Some persons have been called, who have proved (it is true) that he was insufficient at that time, and could not pay more than 3 or 4,000l.; but the same witnesses give an account, that his ill circumstances were then known but to four or five persons of his acquaintance, and that by all other people, who had any knowledge of him at that time, he was looked upon to be very sufficient ; he had left off his business upon having raised an estate; he was of good reputation: he lived at Hackne in a house making a good appearance, with good furniture, and a great quanity of plate, till the last, till the time of his being put in prison, which was not till last year, that he surrendered himself in discharge of his bail.",
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"text": "The second in the Hong, Mowgua, has been a man of large property, but he is of more questionable property now ; I consider him still to be a very sufficient merchant.",
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"word": "задоволителен"
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "arketós",
"sense": "enough, adequate",
"word": "ἀρκετός"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "enough, adequate",
"word": "rawaka"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "purese",
"sense": "enough, adequate",
"word": "पुरेसे"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dostatočno",
"sense": "enough, adequate",
"word": "достаточно"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the smallest quantity needed",
"word": "genoeg"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the smallest quantity needed",
"word": "riittävästi"
},
{
"alt": "さいしょうげんの",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "saishōgen no",
"sense": "the smallest quantity needed",
"word": "最小限の"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "the smallest quantity needed",
"word": "dy liooar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "v dostatke",
"sense": "the smallest quantity needed",
"word": "в достатке"
},
{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "dostatočno",
"sense": "the smallest quantity needed",
"word": "достаточно"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "paryāpta",
"sense": "the smallest quantity needed",
"word": "पर्याप्त"
}
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"word": "nonsufficient"
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"word": "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"
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"word": "self-sufficient"
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"word": "sufficiently"
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"ref": "1842, Nathanael Emmons, Jacob Ide, Social and civil duties, page 456",
"text": "They felt sufficient to maintain their present prosperity and independence.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1983, John MacArthur, Spiritual Gifts, page 98",
"text": "I have never yet felt adequate. I have never yet felt sufficient.",
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"ref": "1668 December 23, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys",
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"(archaic) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible."
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"ref": "1766, Bulstrode Whitlocke, Charles Morton, Whitelockes Notes Uppon The Kings Writt For Choosing Members Of Parlement",
"text": "I shall in this place only mention that qualification by wealth; the rather, being applyed to the deputies of towns and citties, where they use to say of a rich man, he is a very sufficient man : and the other sufficiencies and qualifications are mentioned on other occasions.",
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"ref": "1816, Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783",
"text": "Some persons have been called, who have proved (it is true) that he was insufficient at that time, and could not pay more than 3 or 4,000l.; but the same witnesses give an account, that his ill circumstances were then known but to four or five persons of his acquaintance, and that by all other people, who had any knowledge of him at that time, he was looked upon to be very sufficient ; he had left off his business upon having raised an estate; he was of good reputation: he lived at Hackne in a house making a good appearance, with good furniture, and a great quanity of plate, till the last, till the time of his being put in prison, which was not till last year, that he surrendered himself in discharge of his bail.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1830, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, Select Committee on the East India Company, Reports from the Select Committee[s] of the House of Commons Appointed to Enquire into the Present State of the Affairs of the East-India Company",
"text": "The second in the Hong, Mowgua, has been a man of large property, but he is of more questionable property now ; I consider him still to be a very sufficient merchant.",
"type": "quotation"
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"(obsolete) Having enough money to meet obligations and live comfortably."
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"ipa": "/səˈfɪʃənt/"
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"rhymes": "-ɪʃənt"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "suficient"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "pätevä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "riittävä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "genügend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "ausreichend"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "appropriato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "sufficiente"
},
{
"alt": "じゅうぶんな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jūbun na",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "充分な"
},
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"alt": "たりる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tariru",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
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"verb"
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"word": "足りる"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "sposoben",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "способен"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kadaren",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "кадарен"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "rawaka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "suficiente"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "suficiente"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "tillräcklig"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "riittävä"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of competent power or ability",
"word": "idoneo"
},
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"word": "充分な"
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"lang": "Japanese",
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"word": "足りる"
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