'Surfeit' definitions:

Definition of 'surfeit'

(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being more than full [syn: surfeit, excess, overabundance]
noun
The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: glut, oversupply, surfeit]
noun
Eating until excessively full [syn: repletion, surfeit]
verb
Supply or feed to surfeit [syn: surfeit, cloy]
verb
Indulge (one's appetite) to satiety

Definition of 'Surfeit'

From: GCIDE
  • Surfeit \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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. --V. Knox. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Surfeit'

From: GCIDE
  • Surfeit \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. [1913 Webster]
  • Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
  • Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking. [1913 Webster]
  • To prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels. --Bunyan. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Disgust caused by excess; satiety. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
  • Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit. --Burke. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Surfeit'

From: GCIDE
  • Surfeit \Sur"feit\, v. i.
  • 1. To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess. [1913 Webster]
  • They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To indulge to satiety in any gratification. [1913 Webster]

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