3. To be injured; to sustain loss or damage.

Public business suffers by private infirmities.

Sir W. Temple.

Suf"fer*a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. souffrable.] 1. Able to suffer or endure;

patient. [Obs.] "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer.

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