Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SUIT
SUIT, v.i.
To agree; to accord; as, to suit with; to suit to. Pity suits with a noble nature. – Dryden. Give me not an office / That suits with me so ill. – Addison. The place itself was suiting to his care. – Dryden. [The use of with, after suit, is now most frequent.]
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