单词 | surfeited |
释义 | surfeitedadj.ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > dietary disorders surfeited1566 surfeit1601 locoed1875 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. clxxxiij. f. 117v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Whensoeuer a horse is surfeted, and full of euill humors needing to be purged,..I woulde wyshe you to beginne fyrst with a glister. 1656 Markham's Perfect Horseman (ed. 2) 168 (heading) For any Maungie or universall Leprosie in a foul surfeited Horse. 1754 Gibson's New Treat. Dis. Horses (ed. 2) II. iii. ix. 173 Others that are extremely thin skin'd, have a short woolly down, or kind of winter Coat, which lies underneath the hair, and gives them a dirty, surfeited look, tho' they are at the same time in perfect health. 1796 Sporting Mag. Nov. 65/1 The purging that attends horses that have been long surfeited..should always be left to nature. 1875 H. Van Laun tr. Molière Wks. I. 102 His folly is like a sore in a surfeited horse; cure it in one place, and it breaks out in another. 2. That surfeits (in various senses of the verb); esp. fed, filled, or supplied to excess; satiated, glutted; nauseated or oppressed by overindulgence or excess. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > over-fed, gorged, or sated full of foodOE surfeitousc1390 repletea1400 satiate1440 fulsome1447 overfed1579 surfeited1584 gorged1594 overgorged1607 gluttoneda1658 saturated1658 throat-full1681 quat?c1730 stalled1740 englutted1814 cloyed1830 stodged1873 1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx Sig. S.4v When..that his surfited Prodigalitie was throughly purged with a coinlesse Uomit. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. ii. 5 The surfeted Groomes doe mock their charge With Snores. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 55 The neuer surfeited Sea. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Savage tr. A. de Guevara Spanish Lett. xiv. 98 The Married Man is commonly full of Care, Sad, Weary, Surfeited, nay, and Frighted to Boot. 1719 T. Southerne Spartan Dame ii. i. 25 The repented Rashness of my Youth, Whose unadvising Folly gave me to Your Sister's Bed, now surfeited and loath'd. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 758 They that feed th' o'er-charg'd And surfeited lewd town with her fair dues. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. ii. 22 Take a watchful, self-denying man,..and compare him with the heavy, surfeited man. 1886 H. F. Lester Under Two Fig Trees 182 And then divide the morsel among these already surfeited gluttons. 1934 F. C. Hanighen Santa Anna x. 236 His destiny now as recently seemed to be to provide victories to the already surfeited Americans. 1955 E. Waugh Officers & Gentlemen ii. vi. 291 The London crowd shuffled past, surfeited with tea and Woolton pies. 2003 Australian (Nexis) 10 Apr. 14 A place riven by a widening chasm between rich and poor, materially surfeited but spiritually starved. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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