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Surfeit
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. Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. --Piers Plowman. Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made. --Shak. 2. Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking. To prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels. --Bunyan. 3. Disgust caused by excess; satiety. --Sir P. Sidney. Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit. --Burke.
Surfeit
Surfeit Sur"feit, v. i. 1. To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess. They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. --Shak. 2. To indulge to satiety in any gratification.

Meaning of Surfeited from wikipedia

- Look up surfeit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Surfeit is a human gene cluster that consists of a group of very tightly linked genes on chromosome...
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- damp uncovered pitches, and crowd attendances were poor, attributed to a "surfeit of cricket". Since then, international Test cricket has generally been...
- rendition of true events works only intermittently. It loses its way in a surfeit of computer-generated air combat sequences." He also mentioned although...
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- the subjects there should be overexposed, not suppressed, "so that a surfeited public rebels in disgust." In Philip Roth's Our Gang, which was published...