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Definition of Surfeited
1. surfeit [v] - See also: surfeit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surfeited
Literary usage of Surfeited
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a by James Montgomery Bailey (1873)
"After the audience had surfeited themselves with grief, and the other refreshments
furnished, the remains were taken to the cemetery, and again set out. c. ..."
2. The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting by Elisha Jarrett Lewis, George G. White (1863)
"... but a few years back such was the case; and a writer informs us,—"That so
completely surfeited with this game have the crews of merchant-vessels become, ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1861)
"... they offer the highest religious privilege divested of any accompanying
self-denial or inconvenience; they offer it to surfeited bodies and to wearied ..."
4. A Study of Hamlet by John Conolly (1863)
"... after that unearthly discourse and when he was surfeited with recent horrors.
As no gravity then resulted from that interview, so no gravity now results ..."
5. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"1 recall the time (and am glad ft is over) •ben about this boor (six in tte
morning) I used to be going to bed surfeited with ..."
6. Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 by Mary Wortley Montagu (1906)
"I shall be surfeited. Adieu, &c. To THE COUNTESS OF [MAR]. Vrenna, Jan. 16,
OS [1717]. I AM now, dear sister, to take leave of you for a long time, ..."
7. The London Medical Gazette (1830)
"... and, after the pompous and ridiculous fustian of the inscriptions we bad just
been surfeited with, to read - " The short ami simple annals of the poor. ..."
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