a. Obs. Also 5 suffretouse, -ateuse, -atous. [a. OF. suffretous, -aitous (mod.F. souffreteux), = Pr. sofrachos; f. suffraite (see prec.).] Needy, in want, miserable.
c. 1450. Merlin, xiii. 201. He knoweth beste the pore and the suffretouse.
1481. Caxton, Godfrey, ccix. 306. The hoost … were but fewe and suffretous by cause they had no shippes. Ibid. (1490), Eneydos, i. 13. Now was that pyetous cyte … putte in desolacyon suffretous. Ibid. (1491), Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. xli. 64 b/2. Tyll that thou haste dystrybuted alle thyse goodes … to the suffretous, poore and nedy.
