† suffisantly, adv. Obs.
[f. suffisant + -ly2. Cf. MDu. soffisantelike.]
Sufficiently, adequately, competently.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter Cant. 498 Whaim sa þou has punysst suffyssauntly here þou will noght punyss eft. c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. vi. (1868) 133 Vnneþes is þer suffisauntly any þing to answere perfitly to þi questioun. 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 21904 Now thow hast ynowh plente Off water..Suffysauntly a bath to make. 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 224/2 He cam agayn to his owen place and ete suffysauntly twyes a day of the same loof. 1489 ― Faytes of A. iii. viii. 184 With peyne he shulde fynde one that shulde suffysauntly kepe his rowme. 1502 Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W.) iv. vi, That the synner sayth not suffysauntly his synnes. |