Surfeits

Word SURFEITS
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Definitions and meanings of "Surfeits"

What do we mean by surfeits?

An excessive amount of something.

Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.

A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.

Disgust caused by excess; satiety.

An overabundant supply or indulgence Urban Dictionary

A collective noun from surfeit, meaning an excess; and since the method of navigating through the web is "to surf", many websites collectively would be a surfeit. Urban Dictionary

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The word "surfeits" in example sentences

Link thou art too full of the wars 'surfeits to go rove with one that's yet unbruised ❋ Matociquala (2007)

Scottish borough are rendered, by their limited means of luxury, inaccessible to gout, surfeits, and all the comfortable chronic diseases which are attendant on wealth and indolence. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Opera with its lemans, the pink boudoir and its flossy hangings, the feast and its surfeits; we have even seen ❋ Unknown (2003)

Large, round-shouldered, and clean-shaven like a chef, Virubov was for ever hitching up breeches which had slipped from a stomach ruined with surfeits of watermelon. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Looke how I am, such art thou like to be If armes preuent not heauens intendiment, _Grinuile_, which now surfeits with dignitie, ❋ Unknown (2003)

Among the effects to be feared are cholera and excess: he enumerates celebrated people who died of surfeits of melon. ❋ Wheaton Barbara Ketcham (1983)

There is a prevailing flavor of syrupy insincerity, an affectation of wholehearted truthfulness, amounting to the worst kind of deception, which sickens as it surfeits. ❋ Muggeridge, Malcolm (1965)

Robert Turner naively says, "The Red Poppy Flower (_Papaver erraticum_) resembleth at its bottom the settling [438] of the 'Blood in pleurisie'"; and, he adds, "how excellent is that flower in diseases of the pleurisie with similar surfeits hath been sufficiently experienced." ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

I have no doubt that disgust is implanted in the minds of many healthy children by early surfeits of pathological piety. ❋ Various (N/A)

The Opera with its lemans, the pink boudoir and its flossy hangings, the feast and its surfeits; we have even seen Moliere's doctor reappear, such need has this man of sarcasm and grotesqueness. ❋ Frederick Lawton (N/A)

Cold water was cheap and plentiful, they used it externally and internally -- exercise was fashionable and inevitable, where every lady was her own help, and every gentleman his own woodsawyer; food was just dear enough to make surfeits undesirable, and medicine was so unpopular that nobody before me ever ventured to open a drug store; the old ladies dispensed a few herbs privately, and that was the end of it. ❋ Various (N/A)

Sooner or later love, which is loose, surfeits and sours. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

I. More fevers and surfeits are got by people’s drinking when they are hot, than by any one thing I know. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Other people's surfeits of champagne and ortolans had assured his own taste for plain roast beef. ❋ Basil King (1893)

'Tis most true that our friendship has been brought up hardly enough, and possibly it thrives the better for't, 'tis observed that surfeits kill more than fasting does, but our's is in no danger of that. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Others might and would consume themselves in fevers of avarice, and surfeits of luxury, -- but for him such temporary pleasures were past. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

It was the favorite court romance of its day, but it surfeits a modern reader with its sweetness, and confuses him with its tangle of adventures. ❋ Unknown (1886)

After partaking in the surfeit of tacos and [tamales] at the All-You-Can-Eat Taco [Tamale] [Lunch Special], Beth felt rather sick. ❋ Talimo (2009)

When [Googling] for [best video] [game], I was presented with a surfeit of websites! ❋ Harrison Grady (2006)

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