See suffisen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"(intransitive) to be adequate for some purpose or need, to suffice, to be enough (+ for, to, unto, or til: for (something) or for (someone’s) needs; + to: to (do something); + of: regarding, on (some subject))"
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"english": "For Nature will not allow / Any earthly creature / To survive for long / Without sleep, and sorrowing; / And yet I cannot, by night or morning, / Sleep, […]",
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"text": "For Nature wolde nat ſuffyſe / To non erthly creature / Not longe tyme to endure / Without ſlepe & be yn ſorwe / And I ne may ne nyght ne morwe / Slepe […]",
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"religion",
"theology"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to be adequate for (someone’s) wants or needs, to satisfy"
],
"links": [
[
"adequate",
"adequate"
],
[
"want",
"want"
],
[
"need",
"need"
],
[
"satisfy",
"satisfy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) to be adequate for (someone’s) wants or needs, to satisfy"
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to feed (a person or animal)"
],
"links": [
[
"feed",
"feed"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) to feed (a person or animal)"
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English intransitive verbs",
"Middle English terms with quotations",
"Middle English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "For Nature will not allow / Any earthly creature / To survive for long / Without sleep, and sorrowing; / And yet I cannot, by night or morning, / Sleep, […]",
"ref": "c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1450–1475 in Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 638, folio 110v",
"text": "For Nature wolde nat ſuffyſe / To non erthly creature / Not longe tyme to endure / Without ſlepe & be yn ſorwe / And I ne may ne nyght ne morwe / Slepe […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to allow, to permit, to suffer"
],
"links": [
[
"to",
"to#Middle_English"
],
[
"allow",
"allow"
],
[
"permit",
"permit"
],
[
"suffer",
"suffer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive or intransitive with to) to allow, to permit, to suffer"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with to"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English intransitive verbs",
"Middle English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to be capable of, to be able to (do something)"
],
"links": [
[
"to",
"to#Middle_English"
],
[
"capable",
"capable"
],
[
"able",
"able"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive or intransitive with to) to be capable of, to be able to (do something)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with to"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to need, to require"
],
"links": [
[
"need",
"need"
],
[
"require",
"require"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) to need, to require"
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English intransitive verbs",
"Middle English reflexive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to be content (+ to or unto: with)"
],
"links": [
[
"content",
"content"
],
[
"to",
"to#Middle_English"
],
[
"unto",
"unto#Middle_English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive or reflexive) to be content (+ to or unto: with)"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"reflexive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/suˈfiːsən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/suˈfiːzən/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "suffise"
},
{
"word": "sufficen"
},
{
"word": "suffice"
},
{
"word": "suffysen"
},
{
"word": "suffycen"
},
{
"word": "souffise"
},
{
"word": "souffice"
},
{
"word": "suffichen"
},
{
"word": "suffischen"
},
{
"word": "suffycyn"
},
{
"word": "suffyzyn"
},
{
"word": "soffyce"
},
{
"word": "sofysyn"
},
{
"word": "soffysse"
},
{
"word": "suffysse"
}
],
"word": "suffisen"
}
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