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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SURFEIT, v.t. sur'fit. [L. facio.]
1. To feed with meat or drink, so as to oppress the stomach and derange the functions of the system; to overfeed and produce sickness or uneasiness.
2. To cloy; to fill to satiety and disgust. He surfeits us with his eulogies.
SUR'FEIT, v.i. To be fed till the system is oppressed and sickness or uneasiness ensues.
They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
SUR'FEIT, n. Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned by excessive eating and drinking. He has not recovered from a surfeit.
1. Excess in eating and drinking.
Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the state of being more than full [syn: surfeit, excess, overabundance]
2: the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: glut, oversupply, surfeit]
3: eating until excessively full [syn: repletion, surfeit] v
1: supply or feed to surfeit [syn: surfeit, cloy]
2: indulge (one's appetite) to satiety

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English surfet, from Anglo-French, from surfaire to overdo, from sur- + faire to do, from Latin facere — more at do Date: 14th century 1. an overabundant supply ; excess 2. an intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something (as food or drink) 3. disgust caused by excess II. verb Date: 14th century transitive verb to feed, supply, or give to surfeit intransitive verb archaic to indulge to satiety in a gratification (as indulgence of the appetite or senses) Synonyms: see satiate • surfeiter noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 an excess esp. in eating or drinking. 2 a feeling of satiety or disgust resulting from this. --v. (surfeited, surfeiting) 1 tr. overfeed. 2 intr. overeat. 3 intr. & tr. (foll. by with) be or cause to be wearied through excess. Etymology: ME f. OF sorfe(i)t, surfe(i)t (as SUPER-, L facere fact- do)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A surfeit of something is an amount which is too large. (FORMAL) Rationing had put an end to a surfeit of biscuits long ago. = surplus N-SING: usu N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Satiate, glut, gorge, sate, overfeed. 2. Cloy, pall, nauseate. II. v. n. Be surfeited, feed to satiety. III. n. 1. Excess. 2. Fulness, oppression, repletion, plethora. 3. Satiety, disgust. 4. Repletion, glut, fulness, plethora, excess, superabundance, over-abundance, redundance, superfluity, nimiety.

Moby Thesaurus

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