How to pronounce“surfeit”in English
advNERISSA. You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet, for aught I
see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean: superfluity come sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
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Definitions of “surfeit”
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 ; […]”
An excessive amount of something.
“A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.”
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.”
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;”
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