surfeit
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1. surfeit - Noun
2. surfeit - Verb
Meaning
Excess in eating and drinking.
Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
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.
To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
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As for the experiment itself, it succeeded excellently well; but in the journey between London and Highgate, I was taken with such a fit of casting as I know not whether it were the Stone, or some surfeit or cold, or indeed a touch of them all three.
Even their most uninhibited documents of self-congratulations are haunted by the threat of overvloed, the surfeit that rose like a cresting flood – a word heavy with warning as well as euphoria.
The death of Henry I from "a surfeit of palfreys " (recorded in other historical works as a "surfeit of lampreys ", Chapter XIII) proves to be a paradigmatic case of the deaths of later monarchs through a surfeit of over-eating or other causes.
If the surfeit of seasonal water is not stored, it will run off into the sea, leaving agricultural lands thirsting during winter and early summer.
A surfeit of weaponry, a lack of law enforcement, porous borders and false identity papers supplied by corrupt officials also played their part in a process that many regarded as serving God.
He describes in great detail a surfeit of sexual affairs undertaken after she departed, then flashes back to describe their first encounter: Olga picked him up as a hitchhiker, then pulled over the car for the first of their sexual enthusiasms.