Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To supply; furnish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To supply; to furnish.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete, transitive To supply; to furnish.

Etymologies

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Latin suppeditatus, past participle of suppeditare ("to supply").

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Examples

  • The man who uses it debases the currency of learning: and I suggest to you that it is one of the many functions of a great University to maintain the standard of that currency, to guard the jus et norma loquendi, to protect us from such hasty fellows or, rather, to suppeditate them in their haste.

    II. The Practice of Writing 1916

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