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▪ I. suffect, a. (n.) Rom. Antiq.|səˈfɛkt|
[ad. L. suffectus, pa. pple. of sufficĕre to substitute (see suffice).]
Applied to the office of those additional consuls (or to the consuls themselves) who were elected, as under the Empire, during the official year. Also n., a consul suffect.
1862Merivale Rom. Emp. lxvi. VII. 410 note, The innovation of the suffect consulship. 1883Athenæum 3 Mar. 286/2 T. Sextius Africanus, a colleague of Ostorius Scapula in the suffect consulate a.d. 59. a1908C. Bigg Orig. Christ. (1909) xi. 122 Granianus and Fundanus had been consuls suffect. 1913G. Edmundson Church in Rome 252 The three suffects for 93 a.d.
▪ II. † suˈffect, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. L. suffect-, pa. ppl. stem of sufficĕre (see prec.).]
trans. To substitute.
1620Bp. Hall Hon. Marr. Clergie i. §24 When the question was of suffecting Amadeus Duke of Sauoy, a maried man, in the roome of Eugenius.
So † suˈffection [late L. suffectio], substitution.
1612Cotta Disc. Dang. Pract. Phys. i. vi. 48 Where..with a sufficient supply by others, the suffection or deputation may ease of a burden. 1671[? R. MacWard] Case Accomod. Exam. 78 The Episcopus Praeses, who when present is to preside, and when absent, doth, at best, only permit a precarious suffection. |