surfeit

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Sated; surfeited; filled.

   “If it proceed from the third occaſion, which is ſurfeit of Meats and Drinks, either natural or unnatural, then the ſigns are theſe ; […]”

2. isim An excessive amount of something.

   “A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.”

3. isim Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.

   “I feel too much thy blessing: make it [this excess]less, For fear I surfeit! Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.”

4. isim A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.

   “King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.”

5. isim Disgust caused by excess; satiety.

   “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.”

6. isim A group of skunks.
7. fiil To fill (something) to excess.

   “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;”

8. fiil To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).

   “She surfeited her children on sweets.”

9. fiil To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.

   “[…] that proportion of meat surfetteth, and surchargeth the stomacks of some, which is not enough to satisfie the hunger of others,”

10. fiil To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.

    “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.”

11. fiil To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess.

    “[…] his appetite for vulgar praise had not yet been surfeited;”

12. fiil To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).

    “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.”

13. fiil To indulge (in something) to excess.

    “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.”

14. fiil To become sick from overindulgence.

    “[…] they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.”