Found 2 items, similar to Surfeit.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: surfeit surfeit n 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] v 1: supply or feed to surfeit [syn: cloy] 2: indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
English → English (gcide) Definition: Surfeit 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] 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]