SuaviloquyToday’s word

suffice

Suffice, v. t.

1. To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of. Spenser. Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. Deut. iii. 26.

2. To furnish; to supply adequately. [Obs.] The power appeased, with winds sufficed the sail. Dryden.

1 other Webster entry under this spelling

Suffice, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sufficed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sufficing.]

To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate. Chaucer. To recount almighty works, What words or tongue of seraph can suffice Milton.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for suffice; he lists it under satisfy.

Where he writes about it:

Much less than is needed to satisfy may suffice a frugal or abstemious person; less than a sufficiency may content one of a patient and submissive spirit. — from satisfy