a. Obs. [a. F. bastant, It., Sp. bastante, pr. pple. of bastare to suffice; see prec. and -ANT.] Sufficient, able, capable.
1637. Monro, Exped., V. i. 80 (Jam.). His Majestie … not being bastant to resist the enemy, retired.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. (1834), 194. Each language borrows from another … nor is the perfectest … without being beholden to another, in all things enuncible, bastant to afford instruction.
