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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.
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Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. --Piers
Plowman.
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Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
--Shak.
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2. Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by
excessive eating and drinking.
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To prevent surfeit and other diseases that are
incident to those that heat their blood by travels.
--Bunyan.
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3. Disgust caused by excess; satiety. --Sir P. Sidney.
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Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly,
and even to surfeit. --Burke.
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Surfeit \Sur"feit\, v. i.
1. To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or
uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
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They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they
that starve with nothing. --Shak.
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2. To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
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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.
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2. To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits
us with compliments. --V. Knox.
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