Word Definition

Surfeit

  1. Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
  2. 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.
  3. To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
  4. Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
  5. Excess in eating and drinking.
  6. To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
  7. To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.