† suˈfficienty Obs.
Also 5 -ia(u)nte.
[a. AF. *sufficiaunte, f. sufficiant, -ent sufficient: see -y. Cf. suffisantee.]
= sufficiency.
| 1450 in Antiq. Rep. (1809) IV. 639 Ordeyne and appoynte suche sufficiante of men and stuffe, as it may be sufficiante for the defence of the Castell and Ile. 1450–80 tr. Secr. Secr. 53 Surtee and sufficiante to þy gouernaille. 1461 Rolls of Parlt. V. 495/2 Yf there be not so many dwellyng within the same Shire of that sufficiaunte. 1592–3 A. Hall in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 170, I..am hereupon, knowing his sufficienty,..humbly to beseeche your Honnor to stand my good Lord in my sonnes suite. |