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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...
- 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...
- Collins. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-06-052842-3. Pedersen, Sarah (1 May 2002). "A Surfeit of Socks? The Impact of the First World War on Women Correspondents to...
- Overeating occurs when an individual consumes more calories than the energy that is expended via physical activity or expelled via excretion, leading to...
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- especially within social media. Context collapse "generally occurs when a surfeit of different audiences occupy the same space, and a piece of information...
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- rendition of true events works only intermittently. It loses its way in a surfeit of computer-generated air combat sequences." He also mentioned although...
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- stylish revenge thriller – albeit one that benefits from a wildly inventive surfeit of style." At Metacritic, which ****igns a weighted average score 69 out...