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单词 quant suff
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quant. suff.n.adv.

Brit. /ˌkwɒnt ˈsʌf/, U.S. /ˈkwɑnt ˈsəf/
Forms: 1800s quant. suf., 1800s quant: suff:, 1800s– quant. suff. (with point).
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: quantum sufficit n.; quantum sufficit adv.
Etymology: As noun shortened < quantum sufficit n. (originally as graphic abbreviation); compare earlier quantum suff. n. As adverb shortened < quantum sufficit adv. (originally as graphic abbreviation); compare earlier quantum suff. adv.
Now rare.
A. n.
= quantum sufficit n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]
fillc893
enoughOE
no lack (of)c1305
sufficiencec1380
suffisancec1381
suffisance1390
sufficienta1450
sufficienty1450
sufficient1470
store1471
sufficientlyc1485
sufficiency1531
satiety1569
strength1593
competence1600
sufficiency1608
competency1616
quantum sufficit1693
quantum suff.1763
adequacy1790
quant. suff.1799
critical mass1947
1799 S. T. Coleridge Let. 23 Apr. (2000) I. 487 Down comes the great Stone Angel with the Bason, presents it to the Pastor who having taken quant. suff., up flies my Angel to his old place in the Ceiling.
1835 Times 8 Mar. 4/2 Daniel has talked a quant. suff. of nonsense.
1843 Darwin Let. 22 Jan. in Corr. (1986) II. 348 My coral-volume..has received its quant: suff: of praise.
1863 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 156/2 A quant. suff. is beaten up with water, which is strained off after standing half an hour.
1945 J. T. Flanagan Amer. Is West 135 On the chinking was the ‘daubing’—viz. a quant. suff. of yellow clay ferociously splashed in soft by the hand of the architect.
B. adv.
= quantum sufficit adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > (in) sufficient amount or degree [phrase]
at or to sufficiencec1430
sufficiently enough1556
q.s.a1662
quantum sufficit1699
quantum suff.1796
quant. suff.1821
1821 Classical Jrnl. 23 281 Boiled fifteen minutes in water, quant. suff., and strained through a sieve.
1840 R. H. Barham Look at Clock in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 60 One glance was enough, Completely ‘Quant. suff.’ As the doctors write down when they send you their ‘stuff’.
1881 W. de W. Abney Photogr. 69 The amount of alcohol required is invariably shown as ‘quant. suf.
1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island p. xxv It was hardly reasonable to ask Parnell to shed blood quant. suff. in Egypt..and then to expect him to become a Tolstoyan or an O'Connellite in regard to his own country.
a1963 C. S. Lewis Discarded Image (1964) i. 9 Popular iconography..wishing to summon up the idea of the Medieval, draws a knight errant with castles, distressed damsels, and dragons quant. suff. in the background.
1976 Times 25 Nov. 32/3 (advt.) Friends I exhort To drink Taylor's Port Quant. suff. to delay their demise.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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