Chapter Sudatorium to Suffocate of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance.

He must not only die the death,
But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
To lingering sufferance.

Shak.

2. Pain endured; misery; suffering; distress.

The seeming sufferances that you had borne.

Shak.

3. Loss; damage; injury. [Obs.]

A grievous . . . sufferance on most part of their fleet.

Shak.

4. Submission under difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation. Chaucer.

But hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise.

Spenser.

5. Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave. Shak.

In their beginning they are weak and wan,
But soon, through sufferance, grow to fearful end.

Spenser.

Somewhiles by sufferance, and somewhiles by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories.

Hooker.

6. A permission granted by the customs authorities for the shipment of goods. [Eng.]

Estate of sufferance (Law), the holding by a tenant who came in by a lawful title, but remains, after his right has expired, without positive leave of the owner. Blackstone. — On sufferance, by mere toleration; as, to remain in a house on sufferance.

Syn. — Endurance; pain; misery; inconvenience; patience; moderation; toleration; permission.

Sufferer
(Suf"fer*er) n.

1. One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea.

2. One who permits or allows.

Suffering
(Suf"fer*ing), n. The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs. "Souls in sufferings tried." Keble.

Suffering
(Suf"fer*ing), a. Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc. — Suf"fer*ing*ly, adv.

Suffice
(Suf*fice") v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sufficed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sufficing ] [OE. suffisen, OF. soufire, F. suffire L. sufficere to put under, to substitute, to avail for, to suffice; sub under + facere to make. See Fact.] 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.

Suffice
(Suf*fice"), 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.