单词 | sufficience |
释义 | sufficiencen. archaic. 1. a. The quality or condition of being sufficient or enough; sufficient supply, means, or resources. 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 c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 44 Siþ alle þingis is bifore Crist, þis sufficience lastiþ longe. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 73 If we be bisi for to gete us tresoure in heuene, God schal send us sufficiens in erde. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 169 Quho thinkis that he hes sufficience Off gudis hes no indigence. 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke i. cxv. 27 b If it [sc. the Nile] increse unto the depth of twelue or thurtene Cubites it portendeth lacke of Sufficience. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 57 Thinkand gif they saiffit thame selffis they had suffiecence quhill ane better fortoun. 1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Consol. Philos. (1712) iii. pr. ii. 109 That they may have Sufficiences and Abundance within themselves. 1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 113 This full and perfect sufficience of life was abruptly disturbed. 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 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adverb] softOE at likinga1398 commodiously1420 beinly?a1500 at home1531 in sufficiencec1550 softly1567 snugly1590 easefully1611 comfortably1634 cosily1721 lown1724 snug1766 lownly1788 tosh1808 comfily1917 c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. lxxxiii. 48 Now needeth it thanne quod sapience that fulfillinge to sufficience thow fynde it. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 551 Off nolt and scheip thai tuk at sufficiens. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 480 Ȝon folk has fud, trast weill, at sufficians. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 705 He wes richt weill sustenit,..At sufficience that neidfull wes to haif, With sic prouisioun that that armet [= hermit] had. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) iii. 21 Ȝe sal eyt ȝour breyde in suficiens. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > competence, fitness, or ability sufficiencec1384 suffisance1426 opportunity1535 qualification1561 sufficiency1567 fitness1574 qualifiedness1675 adequacy1779 competence1790 competency1797 locus standi1822 the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > competence, fitness, or ability > one who sufficience1609 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. iii. 5 Not that we ben sufficient for to thenke ony thing of vs, as of vs, but oure sufficience is of God. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 201 The chiefe cite of whom is callede Capua, namede so of the capacite of sufficiaunce. 1609 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy Earle of Warwick Ep. Ded. These Artless Lines, which in the silence of greater sufficiences, serve only to keep Valour from Oblivious destruction. 1670 A. Marvell Let. 26 Feb. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 98 They are the judges of the sufficience of the securityes. 1676 A. Marvell Let. Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 288 [He] is very well known for his sufficience & integrity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > enough to satisfy want or desire fillc893 fulla1225 fillinga1400 sufficiencec1450 bellyful1535 stakinga1595 wameful1722 skinful1897 c1450 Mankind 731 in Macro Plays 27 Wepynge, sythynge, & sobbynge, were my suffycyens. 1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 513 Draw the soul, that thirsteth after thee, to the rivers of everlasting sufficience, which are above. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 15 This whereof wee treat they neede not, as finding all sufficience in their All-sufficient Creator. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 168 God is all sufficient, Gen. 17. 1. and giues sufficience to all his creatures. 1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 243 With gredines I sie this world ourgane, And sufficience dwellis nocht bot in heavin. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [noun] > self-sufficiency sufficiencec1384 suffisancea1450 self-sufficiency1598 autarky1617 self-dependencea1620 self-sufficience1623 self-subsistencea1631 self-support1632 self-fullness1668 self-reliance1668 self-dependency1749 self-sustainment1779 self-sustenance1786 self-sufficingness1811 substantiveness1821 self-sustentationa1832 self-containment1841 self-sufficientness1846 self-containing1850 self-supportedness1862 rugged individualism1898 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. ix. 8 To make al grace abounde in ȝou, that ȝe in alle thingis euermore hauynge al sufficience. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. i. 4 God contemplating himself beholds in his Divine Essence or Sufficience. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1380 |
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