About The Word Surfeit
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Surfeit
Surfeit Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Surfeit?
[n] eating until excessively full
[n] the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [n] the state of being more than full [v] indulge to satiety, as of one's appetite [v] supply or feed to surfeit Synonyms | Synonyms for Surfeit: cloy | excess | glut | overabundance | oversupply | repletion Related Terms | Find terms related to Surfeit: See Also | eating | feeding | fullness | furnish | indulge | luxuriate | overabundance | overmuch | overmuchness | provide | render | superabundance | supply Surfeit In Webster's Dictionary \Sur"feit\, n. [OE. surfet, OF. surfait, sorfait,
excess, arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment,
exaggerate, F. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to
make, do, L. facere. See {Sur-}, and {Fact}.]
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.
--Shak.
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\, v. 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. --Shak. 2. To indulge to satiety in any gratification. \Sur"feit\, v. 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 sweets. 2. To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. --V. Knox. |
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