Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUF'FER-A-BLE-NESS, n.

Tolerableness. – Scott.

SUF'FER-A-BLY, adv.

Tolerably; so as to be endured. Addison.

SUF'FER-ANCE, n.

1. The bearing of pain; endurance; pain endured; misery. He must not only die, / But thy unkindness shall the death draw out / To ling'ring sufferance. – Shak.
2. Patience; moderation; a bearing with patience. But hasty heat temp'ring with sufferance wise. – Spenser.
3. Toleration; permission; allowance; negative consent by not forbidding or hindering. In process of time, sometimes by sufferance, sometimes by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories. – Hooker. In their beginning, they are weak and wan, / But soon through sufferance grow to fearful end. – Spenser. An estate at sufferance, in law, is where a person comes into possession of land by lawful title, but keeps it after the title ceases, without positive leave of the owner. – Blackstone.

SUF'FER-ED, pp.

Borne; undergone; permitted; allowed.

SUF'FER-ER, n.

1. One who endures or undergoes pain, either of body or mind; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness. Men are sufferers by fire or losses at sea; they are sufferers by the ravages of an enemy; still more are they sufferers by then own vices and follies.
2. Out that permits or allows.

SUF'FER-ING, n.

The bearing of pain, inconvenience or loss; pain endured; distress, loss or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.

SUF'FER-ING, ppr.

Bearing; undergoing pain, inconvenience or damage; permitting; allowing.

SUF'FER-ING-LY, adv.

With suffering or pain.

SUF-FICE, v.i. [suffi'ze; Fr. suffire; L. sufficio; sub and facio.]

To be enough or sufficient; to be equal to the end proposed. To recount Almighty works / What words or tongue of seraph can suffice? – Milton.

SUF-FICE, v.t. [suffi'ze.]

1. To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of. Let it suffice thee; speak no snore to me of this matter. – Deut. iii. Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. – John xiv. Ruth ii.
2. To afford; to supply. The pow'r appeas'd, with wind suffic'd the sail. – Dryden. [Not in use.]

SUF-FIC-ED, pp. [suffi'zed.]

Satisfied; adequately supplied.

SUF-FI'CIEN-CY, n.

1. The state of being adequate to the end proposed. His sufficiency is such, that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. – Boyle.
2. Qualification for any purpose. I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others. K. Charles.
3. Competence; adequate substance or means. An elegant sufficiency, content. – Thomson.
4. Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund. – Watts.
5. Ability; adequate power. Our sufficiency is from God. – 2 Cor. iii.
6. Conceit; self-confidence. [See Self-sufficiency.]

SUF-FI'CIENT, a. [L. sufficiens.]

1. Enough; equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; water sufficient for the voyage; an army sufficient to defend the country. My grace is sufficient for thee. – 2 Cor. xii.
2. Qualified; competent; possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; as, a man sufficient for an office. – Shak.
3. Fit; able; of competent power or ability. Who is sufficient for these things? – 2 Cor. ii.

SUF-FI'CIENT-LY, adv.

To a sufficient degree; enough; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food and clothing; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.

SUF-FIC-ING, n. [suffi'zing.]

Supplying what is needed; satisfying.

SUF-FI'SANCE, n. [Fr.]

Sufficiency; plenty. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

SUF'FIX, n. [L. suffixus; suffigo; sub and figo, to fix.]

A letter or syllable added or annexed to the end of a word. – Parkhurst. M. Stuart.

SUF-FIX', v.t.

To add or annex a letter or syllable to a word.

SUF-FIX'ED, pp.

Added to the end of a word.

SUF-FIX'ING, ppr.

Adding to the end of a word.

SUF-FLAM'IN-ATE, v.t. [L. sufflamen, a stop.]

1. To retard the motion of a carriage by preventing one or more of its wheels from revolving, either by a chain or otherwise.
2. To stop; to impede. [Not in use.] – Barrow.

SUF-FLATE, v.t. [L. sufflo; sub and flo, to blow.]

To blow up; to inflate. [Little used.] – Bailey.

SUF-FLA'TION, n. [L. sufflatio.]

The act of blowing up or inflating. – Coles.

SUF'FO-CATE, a.

Suffocated. – Shak.

SUF'FO-CATE, v.t. [Fr. suffoquer; It. suffogare; Sp. sufocar; L. suffoco; sub and focus, or its root.]

1. To choke or kill by stopping respiration. Respiration may be stopped by the interception of air, as in hanging and strangling, or by the introduction of smoke, dust or mephitic or air into the lungs. Men may be suffocated by the halter; or men may be suffocated in smoke or in carbonic acid gas, as in mines and wells. And let not hemp his windpipe suffocate. – Shak.
2. To stifle; to destroy; to extinguish; as, to suffocate fires or live coals. A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage. – Collier.