Definition of Sufficing

1. a. Affording enough; satisfying.

Definition of Sufficing

1. Verb. (present participle of suffice) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sufficing

1. suffice [v] - See also: suffice

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sufficing

suffice to say
sufficed
sufficer
sufficers
suffices
sufficeth
sufficience
sufficiences
sufficiencie
sufficiencies
sufficiency
sufficient
sufficient condition
sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
sufficiently
sufficing (current term)
sufficingness
suffix
suffix notation
suffix tree
suffixable
suffixal
suffixation
suffixations
suffixed
suffixes
suffixhood
suffixing
suffixion
suffixions

Literary usage of Sufficing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Politics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1885)
"In II u- r -7 i ,-u should be manner a state when composed of too few is not as a *» seif- state ought to be, self-sufficing ; when of too many, ..."

2. Principles of Economics: With Special Reference to American Conditions by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1905)
"Self-sufficing or Isolated Economy By this term is meant a form of ... This self-sufficing economy assumes many different aspects in the course of history. ..."

3. Principles of Economics: With Special Reference to American Conditions by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1914)
"This self-sufficing economy assumes many different aspects in the course of history. The economic unit may be either a family or a larger group. ..."

4. Principles of Economics by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1909)
"Self-sufficing or Isolated Economy. By this term is meant a form of ... This self-sufficing economy assumes many different aspects in the course of history. ..."

5. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"THE SELF-sufficing CHARACTER OF THE MANOR' BY WJ ASHLEY AND RE PROTHERO In the Middle Ages agriculture was a self-supporting industry rather than a ..."

6. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"... origin of manors; the thirteenth century manor and village; divisions of land according to differences of tenure; villages isolated and self- sufficing; ..."

7. John Chinaman at Home: Sketches of Men, Manners and Things in China by Edward John Hardy (1906)
"... is almost self-sufficing, growing much of its own food and clothes stuff. It is also a little principality by itself, for the Government of China, ..."

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