Surfeit \Sur"feit\, 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.

Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. --Piers Plowman.

Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made. --Shak.

2. Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.

To prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels. --Bunyan.

3. Disgust caused by excess; satiety. --Sir P. Sidney.

Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit. --Burke.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Surfeit \Sur"feit\, v. i.

1. To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.

They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. --Shak.

2. To indulge to satiety in any gratification.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Surfeit \Sur"feit\, 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.

2. To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. --V. Knox.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)