Surfeit /(?)/
Sur·feit
Surfeit
n.
-
Excess in eating and drinking.
Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board.
Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
-
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.
-
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.
Surfeit
v. i.
-
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.
- To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
Surfeit
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Surfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Surfeiting
- 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.
- To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.