Definition of Surfeit

Sur´feit
n.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.
Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.
- Burke.
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.
v. t.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.
[imp. & p. p. Surfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Surfeiting.]
2.To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.


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