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† unsuˈfficient, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. = insufficient a. 1.
1395Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 82 It is not declarid..that the clerk was vnsufficient, neither vnable. c1445Pecock Donet 145 And þanne, wherto schulde þe sufficient be lefte, and þe vnsufficient be taken,..in a purpos so necessarye? c1450Myrr. our Ladye 137 We oughte to knowe oure selfe vnsuffycyente & therfore pray for helpe. a1513Fabyan Chron. vi. cxlix. 136 Consyderynge the vnablenesse of Hilderich the kynge, that he was vnsufficient to rule so great a charge. 1535Coverdale Bible Prol. ⁋7 As for the commendacyon of Gods holy scripture..I am farre vnsufficient therto. a1617Hieron Wks. (1619) II. 474 This miserie of hauing none among them but an vnseasoning and vnsufficient minister. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 9 Being unprovided, or unsufficient for higher speculations.
2. = insufficient a. 2.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. i. (Bodl. MS.) fol. 185 b, Also in some trene þe [humoure] is vnsufficiaunte and vnperfecte. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 109 Wat sum euer may be seyde of hyt by mannys mowthe, ful lytyl hyt ys, and onsufficient to expresse the ioy of myne herte. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia i. (1895) 96 He perceiued the same stocke of money to be to litel, and vnsufficient. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lx. §7 When vnder vnsufficient pretences wee defraude them of such ordinarie outward helpes as wee should exhibit. 1625Gill Sacr. Philos. Pref., You say that reason is an unsufficient meane, and unable to bring us to the knowledge of those things. 1656Jeanes Mixt. Schol. Div. 5 Our Saviour's discourse sheweth, that these were weak and unsufficient grounds.
Hence † unsuˈfficiently adv.; -ness. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xxxi. (Bodl. MS.), Whanne þe lunges beþ igreued with..bocches..he serueþ þe hert *vnsufficiantlich of aier. c1440Alph. Tales 143 One of þe cardynals when he hard þis, began to gruche agayne þe pope, & said he demyd vnsufficientlie. c1455Pecock Folewer 204 Ellis y wolde graunte þat y vnsufficientli nombrid þe poyntis of goddis lawe in þe..tablis. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. vi. §13 Absolving of unsufficiently disposed penitents. 1685Petty Will p. v, The admeasurement of the lands..was most unsufficiently and absurdly managed.
1533Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 286/2 Sua that oure soverane lord and his liegis be nocht begylit tharewith anent the *unsufficientnes of the samyn. |