\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.

\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.

\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.