Surfeit — Defs

01 n. Excess in eating and drinking.

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.
“Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.” — Burke.

02 v. i. To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.

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.

03 v. t. To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- …

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.