Meaning of Surfeit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An excessive amount of something.
   countable
2. Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
   uncountable
3. A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
   countable
4. Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
   countable, uncountable
5. A group of skunks.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“With what could be a surfeit of candour, [Mike] Skinner has described DJing as more creative than playing his own songs, because, to paraphrase, of the "stress" and "creativity" of not knowing what he'll be doing in three minutes' time.”

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

“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.”

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

“the Leaves they do eat to prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels”

“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.”

“Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.”

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