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# suffice

«suffice» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **be enough** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

be enough

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To be enough for a purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/suffice/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "suffice" is a formal word for "be enough," and we do not usually put "not" after it as in "suffice not." The sentences use that old word order.

### examples

- And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for; (Torah LEV.14.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/suffice/#x1)
- If words suffice not, blows must follow. (Three hundred Aesop’s fables / Translated by George Fyler Townsend) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/suffice/#x2)
- This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose means suffice not for that which pertaineth to his cleansing. (Torah LEV.14.32, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/suffice/#x3)

### primary record

suffice

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 17 (Torah 12, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.9 (Torah alone 28.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.399/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «suffice» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/suffice/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.