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Definition of Surfeit

Surfeit
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.
Surfeit
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.

Meaning of Surfeit from wikipedia

- Look up surfeit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Surfeit is a human gene cluster that consists of a group of very tightly linked genes on chromosome...
- Collins. p. 134. ISBN 9780060528423. Pedersen, Sarah (1 May 2002). "A Surfeit of Socks? The Impact of the First World War on Women Correspondents to...
- Surfeit of Lampreys is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the tenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1941. The novel...
- Overeating occurs when an individual consumes more calories in relation to the energy that is expended via physical activity or expelled via excretion...
- "A Surfeit of H2O" is the eighth episode of the fourth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee...
- Augustine Campus. ****berbatch published his first collection of poetry, Yaya Surfeit: Mellonie Boy Dancing on My Head (Fabwan, Montserrat) in 2010. He has written...
- (Chapter XVIII). The death of Henry I from "a surfeit of palfreys" (recorded in other historical works as a "surfeit of lampreys", Chapter XIII) proves to be...
- fibres of jute could be lubricated with whale oil (of which Dundee had a surfeit, following the opening of its gasworks) to allow it to be processed in...
- – according to the chronicler Henry of Huntingdon, he ate too many ("a surfeit of") lampreys against his physician's advice – and his condition worsened...
- and space. The task of the folklorist becomes to identify within this surfeit of variables the constants and the expressed meaning that shimmer through...