KJV Dictionary Definition: surfeit

surfeit

SURFEIT, v.t. sur'fit. L. facio.

1. To feed with meat or drink, so as to oppress the stomach and derange the functions of the system; to overfeed and produce sickness or uneasiness.

2. To cloy; to fill to satiety and disgust. He surfeits us with his eulogies.

surfeited

SUR'FEITED, pp. Surcharges and oppressed with eating and drinking to excess; cloyed.

surfeiter

SUR'FEITER, n. One who riots; a glutton.

surfeiting

SUR'FEITING, ppr. Oppressing the system by excessive eating and drinking; cloying; loading or filling to disgust.

SUR'FEITING, n. The act of feeding to excess; gluttony. Luke 21.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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