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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Surfeit \Sur"feit\, verb (used without an object)
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Surfeit \Sur"feit\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Surfeit \Sur"feit\, noun [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
surfeit
noun
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}]
verb
1: supply or feed to surfeit [syn: {cloy}]
2: indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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