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Definition of Surfeiting
1. surfeit [v] - See also: surfeit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surfeiting
Literary usage of Surfeiting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Dakota Territory by George Washington Kingsbury, George Martin Smith (1915)
"fat dog feast, to which the pale faces were cordially invited, but these explained
that they had eaten to surfeiting in the afternoon, and could not eat, ..."
2. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources by James Wood (1899)
"If music be the food of love, play on : / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, /
The appetite may sicken, and so die. ..."
3. Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: For Family and Private Use. With the by John Charles Ryle (1879)
"[Overcharged with surfeiting.] Let it be noticed that both the Greek words so
translated, are only found here in the New Testament. ..."
4. The Homoeopathic domestic physician by Constantine Hering (1904)
"... should this fail, Nux vomica, and later, Arsenicum or Sulphur. Compare article
on " Piles and Hemorrhage." CHAPTER IV. CONSEQUENCES OF surfeiting. ..."
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