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† surfetous, a. (adv.) Obs.
Forms: 4–6 -ouse, 5 surf(f)etus, 6 surfettouse.
[a. AF. surfetous, f. surfet surfeit n.: see -ous.]
Immoderate, intemperate; surfeited with food or drink.
a1400Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xlix. 382 Large table and plentyuouse Makeþ men of Ianglyng surfetouse. 1422Yonge tr. Secr. Secr. lxv. 242 To kepe covstoume is moche wourth to mayntene hele, so that hit be not surfetouse. 1552Huloet, Surfetouse, crapulosus.
b. adv. Excessively, superabundantly.
c1400Destr. Troy 4219 Hyt semys not surfetus harde No vnpossibill. Ibid. 9352 Surffetus mony, Bothe of kynges, & knightes & kid men of armes.
So ˈsurfetry (also 5 serfetrie) [after surquidry], (a) presumption, (b) surfeit; † ˈsurfeture [cf. OF. surfeiture arrogance], † ˈsurfety, surfeiting.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 13133 Hit was open *surfetrie, And on gret pride & folye.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 389 Sum men dremyn for *surfeture Þat etyn or drynkyn ouer mesure.
a1450Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 286 So þe seek wol do wysely, And kepe him-self fro *surfety [v.r. serfetrie]. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 20 b, Then must the harte nedes waxe faynte, as well as of excesse of fyllinge or surffetty. |