Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To substitute.
  • Substituted; put in place of another.

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Examples

  • The Senate can have suffect consuls appointed for the rump of the year.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • There would be more suffect consuls, but Fonteius was to continue in office until the end of the year, a signal honor.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • He left the House on the arm of Gaius Fonteius, who had become suffect consul on the Kalends of May; his own consulship he had laid down on the second day of January, thus imitating Antony the year before.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The Senate can have suffect consuls appointed for the rump of the year.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • He left the House on the arm of Gaius Fonteius, who had become suffect consul on the Kalends of May; his own consulship he had laid down on the second day of January, thus imitating Antony the year before.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • There would be more suffect consuls, but Fonteius was to continue in office until the end of the year, a signal honor.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • “A suffect consulship next year for my nevvy, Titius.”

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • “A suffect consulship next year for my nevvy, Titius.”

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • His would-be assassin (that Fimbria who had gone off with Flaccus the suffect consul to relieve Sulla of his command against King Mithridates, then murdered Flaccus) could produce no better excuse at the time than to laugh that Scaevola deserved to die.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • His unhappiness and discomfort, present since the very beginning of his tenure of the curule chair, now became intolerable; the flamen Dialis and suffect consul Merula drew himself up and faced his colleague Octavius and the enraged Metellus Pius with all the dignity he could muster.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

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