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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Surfeit  \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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  2.  To  fill  to  satiety  and  disgust;  to  cloy;  as  he  surfeits 
  us  with  compliments.  --V.  Knox. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  surfeit 
  n  1:  the  state  of  being  more  than  full  [syn:  {excess},  {overabundance}] 
  2:  the  quality  of  being  so  overabundant  that  prices  fall  [syn: 
  {glut},  {oversupply}] 
  3:  eating  until  excessively  full  [syn:  {repletion}] 
  v  1:  supply  or  feed  to  surfeit  [syn:  {cloy}] 
  2:  indulge  to  satiety,  as  of  one's  appetite




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