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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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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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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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