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Webster 1913 Edition
Surfeit
Sur′feit
,Noun.
1.
Excess in eating and drinking.
Let not Sir
Surfeit
sit at thy board. Piers Plowman.
Now comes the sick hour that his
surfeit
made. Shakespeare
2.
Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
To prevent
surfeit
and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels. Bunyan.
3.
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
Sir P. Sidney.
Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to
surfeit
. Burke.
Sur′feit
,Verb.
I.
1.
To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
They are as sick that
surfeit
with too much as they that starve with nothing. Shakespeare
2.
To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
Sur′feit
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Surfeited
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Surfeiting
.] 1.
To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; – often reflexive;
as, to
. surfeit
one’s self with sweets2.
To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy;
as, he
. surfeits
us with complimentsV. Knox.
Webster 1828 Edition
Surfeit
SURFEIT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To feed with meat or drink, so as to oppress the stomach and derange the functions of the system; to overfeed and produce sickness or uneasiness.2.
To cloy; to fill to satiety and disgust. He surfeits us with his eulogies.