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.
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.
SURFEITER
Sur"feit*er, n.
Defn: One who surfeits. Shak.
SURFEIT-WATER
Sur"feit-wa`ter, n.
Defn: Water for the cure of surfeits. [Obs.] Locke.
SURFEL; SURFLE
Sur"fel, Sur"fle, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Sulphur.]