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Excess in eating and drinking. Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. Piers Plowman. Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made. Shak.

Water for the cure of surfeits. [Obs.] Locke.

One who surfeits. Shak.

Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.

To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.

The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.

Abstinence from food; omission to take nounrishment. Surfeit is the father of much fast. Shak.

Sated; surfeited. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. Is. i. 11.

To feed to excess; to surfeit.

Too full; filled to overflowing; excessively full; surfeited. Shak.

abnormally full, so as to cause overflow, distention, or congestion; excess of fullness; surfeit.

To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit. Crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities. Macaulay.

To full beyond matural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.

Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; -- with of; as, to be sick of flattery. He was not so sick of his master as of his work. L'Estrange.

to disgust; to be disgusted or nauseated; to be filled with abhorrence or aversion; to be surfeited or satiated. Mine eyes did sicken at the sight. Shak.

Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv.

To surfeit. [Obs.]