n. One who surfeits. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. surfet, OF. surfait, sorfait, excess, arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment, exaggerate, F. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to make, do, L. facere. See Sur-, and Fact. ] 1. Excess in eating and drinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

To prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Disgust caused by excess; satiety. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To indulge to satiety in any gratification. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Surfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Surfeiting. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Water for the cure of surfeits. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]