Both Uses of
sufficient
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- CYRANO: Or (since fumes have property to mount)— To charge a globe with fumes, sufficiently To carry me aloft!†
Act 3 *sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Ay, Sirs, on all sides I hear that in your ranks you scoff at me; That the Cadets, these loutish, mountain-bred, Poor country squires, and barons of Perigord, Scarce find for me—their Colonel—a disdain Sufficient!†
Act 4sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)