surfeit
IPA: sˈɝfʌt
noun
- (countable) An excessive amount of something.
- (uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
- (countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
- Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
- (countable) A group of skunks.
verb
- (transitive) To fill (something) to excess.
- (transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
- (transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
- (transitive, figurative) To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
- (transitive) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
- (intransitive, reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
- (intransitive, reflexive, figurative) To indulge (in something) to excess.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).
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Examples of "surfeit" in Sentences
- For Augustine says (Confess. ii, 6) that "lust affects to be called surfeit and abundance."
- Apres Chremslech I trust you are not suffering from 'Pharoah's Revenge' otherwise known as a surfeit of Matzot.
- A peculiar eruption, termed surfeit, which resembles mange, is sometimes the consequence of exposure to cold after a hot sultry day.
- The Monastic Impulse is based on world-weariness, with disappointed love, or sex surfeit, which is a phase of the same thing, as a basis.
- But the surfeit is a far cry from earlier in 2010, when the network scrambled to fill five hours of primetime programming after canceling Leno's primetime show.
- This disease is perhaps generally left after a slight inflammation of the stomach, called a surfeit, occasioned by drinking cold liquors, or eating cold vegetables, when heated with exercise.
- They were explained in two ways: at the time of a fresh injection, the toxin was added to the amount already absorbed by the body, and thus had a heightened effect (Koch, Richet); or else certain subjects were occasionally and paradoxically hypersensitive, and this, as it were, by a kind of surfeit caused by repeated doses of the toxin (Behring).
- Tough call, but I probably like his "Many Moons" even a little better, both because it includes the word "surfeit" (the Princess falls ill from a surfeit of blueberry tarts) and because it covers astrophysics (all the King's royal advisers tell him it's impossible to have the moon on a chain because it's way too big, but the Jester figures out a way).
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