surfeit

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: excessoverabundanceglutoversupplyrepletioncloy

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. the state of being more than fullSynonyms: excessoverabundance
  2. the quality of being so overabundant that prices fallSynonyms: glutoversupply
  3. eating until excessively fullSynonyms: repletion

Verb (2)

  1. supply or feed to surfeitSynonyms: cloy
  2. indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board.— Piers Plowman.[1913 Webster]
Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking. [1913 Webster]

To prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels.— Bunyan.[1913 Webster]

3.Disgust caused by excess; satiety. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]

Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.— Burke.[1913 Webster]
Surfeit \Sur"feit\, v. i.

1.To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess. [1913 Webster]

They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To indulge to satiety in any gratification. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

2.To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. --V. Knox. [1913 Webster]

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