surfeit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English surfeite, surfet, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman surfet, surfeit and Old French sorfet, sorfait, past participle of surfaire (“to augment, exaggerate, exceed”), from sur- (“over”) + faire (“to do”). The adjective is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: surfeits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: surfeits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: surfeiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: surfeited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: surfeited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An excessive amount of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.
With what could be a surfeit of candour, [Mike] Skinner has described DJing as more creative than playing his own songs, because, to paraphrase, of the "stress" and "creativity" of not knowing what he'll be doing in three minutes' time.
gloss: Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I feel too much thy blessing: make it [this excess]less,
For fear I surfeit!
Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
He insisted on stopping at a charmingly romantic cabman's shelter somewhere, at five o'clock this morning, and we had a surfeit of hot cocoa and currant buns.
gloss: A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
the Leaves they do eat to prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels
gloss: Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now for ſimilitudes in certain Printed diſcourſes, I thinke all Herberiſts, all ſtories of beaſts, foules, and fiſhes, are rifled vp, that they may come in multitudes to vvait vpon any of our conceits, which certainly is as abſurd a ſurfet to the eares as is poſsible.
Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.
gloss: A group of skunks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To fill (something) to excess.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in’t,—the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you;
If this surfeited sponge of speculation, this crammed commercial cormorant, wanted more than that for his daughter, why could he not say so without asking disgusting questions such as these […]?
gloss: To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She surfeited her children on sweets.
[…] ev’n the wholsomest Meats may be surfeited on, and there is nothing more unhealthy, than to feed very well, and do but very little Exercise.
To the door of this, the twelfth house whose bell he had rung, came a housekeeper who made him think of an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers.
If he said of a dish, in the local tongue: “I could do a bit of that!” or if he simply smacked his lips over it, she would surfeit him with that dish.
gloss: To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] that proportion of meat surfetteth, and surchargeth the stomacks of some, which is not enough to satisfie the hunger of others,
[…] I imagine him poisoned by his wines, or surfeited by a favourite dish;
gloss: To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 1697, Aphra Behn, “On an ungrateful and undeserving Mistress, whom he cou’d not help Loving” in Poems upon Several Occasions, London: Francis Saunders, p. 50,
While some glad Rival in her Arms did lye,
Glutted with Love and surfeited with Joy.
[…] he shan’t shut me up in this dismal castle, and nauseate me with his surfeiting fondness:
[…] I suppose his majesty thought we had enough of it on the field, and did not wish to surfeit us with glory.
After supper, surfeited with the subject, she yawned.
The image-surfeited are likely to find sunsets corny; they now look, alas, too much like photographs.
gloss: To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
sometimes
transitive
examples: […] his appetite for vulgar praise had not yet been surfeited;
Every one has had the experience of being served with more food than can be eaten with relish and without waste. The effect is to surfeit the appetite and to limit the variety which a patron may have,
gloss: To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
examples: And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Millions of people were starving, while the oligarchs and their supporters were surfeiting on the surplus.
Those who do not surfeit themselves do not weary quickly of any particular article of diet.
gloss: To indulge (in something) to excess.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
reflexive
examples: After surfeiting itself with the Feast here provided for it, the Eye, by using a little Exercise in travelling about the Country, grows hungry again, and returns to the Entertainment with fresh Appetite.
[…] a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.
[…] the intemperate zeal with which middle-aged men are apt to surfeit themselves upon a seductive folly which they have tasted for the first time.
gloss: To become sick from overindulgence.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
reflexive
sometimes
examples: […] they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
I must confesse at my first reading of them [the miracles of Hildegard of Bingen], my belief digested some, but surfeted on the rest:
He that ſerves many Miſtreſſes, ſurfeits on his diet, and grovvs dead to the vvhole ſex: 'tis the folly in the vvorld next long ears and braying.
But are children to be allowed to surfeit themselves? Shall they be suffered to take their fill of dainties and make themselves ill, as they certainly will do?
Related words: surfeiting
surfeitly
surfeitness
surfeitous
Derived words: surfeit water
surfeiter
surfeitive
unsurfeited
unsurfeiting
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: препълвам
roman: prepǎlvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: натъпквам
roman: natǎpkvam
lang: Polish
word: przepełniać
lang: Polish
word: przepełnić
lang: Russian
word: переполня́ть
roman: perepolnjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: перепо́лнить
roman: perepólnitʹ
lang: Spanish
word: colmar
lang: German
word: überfüttern
lang: German
word: vollstopfen
lang: Polish
word: przekarmiać
lang: Polish
word: przekarmić
lang: Russian
word: перека́рмливать
roman: perekármlivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: перекорми́ть
roman: perekormítʹ