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▪ I. ˈsurfeiting, vbl. n. Now rare.
Forms: see surfeit v.; also 6 Sc. surfesting.
[f. surfeit v. + -ing1.]
= surfeit n. 4, 5.
1526Tindale Luke xxi. 34 Take hede to youre selves, lest youre hertes be overcome, with surfettynge and dronkennes. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1539) 23 Some doo suppose, if they be eaten rawe with vyneger, before meate, it shall preserue the stomake from surfettynge. 1551T. Wilson Logic (1580) 38 b, If dronkennesse be deulishe, then surffectyng is deulishe. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis 287 Surfesting of sundrie spyces. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xvii. 257 They might eate much, without any feare of surfetting. 1632tr. Bruel's Praxis Med. 79 Such as are much addicted to surfettings..are subiect to the apoplexy. 1650W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §823 Hee that is drunk..hath for his punishment surfetting (an heavie head). 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Grace before Meat, Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions of thanksgiving.
▪ II. ˈsurfeiting, ppl. a.
[f. surfeit v. + -ing2.]
1. Given to excessive eating or drinking; gluttonous.
1588Kyd Househ. Philos. Wks. (1901) 258 The most incontinent and surfeiting companion. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. i. i. 431 Surfetting courtiers and staulfed Gentlemen lubbers.
2. Producing a state of surfeit or satiety.
1715Nelson Addr. Pers. Qual. 77 The surfeiting Draught Solomon took of Pleasure. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 258 It is a subject too surfeiting to entertain people with the beauty of a person they will never see. 1753Richardson Grandison IV. xxxvi. 246 A fond husband is a surfeiting thing. 1809Malkin Gil Blas vii. xv. ⁋9 Unbounded prodigality in our..table, even to a surfeiting degree. |