Definitions for: 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



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: cloy, excess, glut, overabundance, oversupply, repletion

See Also: eating, feeding, fullness, furnish, indulge, luxuriate, overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness, provide, render, superabundance, supply

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