▪ I. ˈsurfeiting, vbl. n. Now rare.
Forms: see surfeit v.; also 6 Sc. surfesting.
[f. surfeit v. + -ing1.]
= surfeit n. 4, 5.
| 1526 Tindale Luke xxi. 34 Take hede to youre selves, lest youre hertes be overcome, with surfettynge and dronkennes. 1533 Elyot Cast. Helthe (1539) 23 Some doo suppose, if they be eaten rawe with vyneger, before meate, it shall preserue the stomake from surfettynge. 1551 T. Wilson Logic (1580) 38 b, If dronkennesse be deulishe, then surffectyng is deulishe. 1583 Leg. Bp. St. Androis 287 Surfesting of sundrie spyces. 1604 E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xvii. 257 They might eate much, without any feare of surfetting. 1632 tr. Bruel's Praxis Med. 79 Such as are much addicted to surfettings..are subiect to the apoplexy. 1650 W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §823 Hee that is drunk..hath for his punishment surfetting (an heavie head). 1821 Lamb Elia Ser. i. Grace before Meat, Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions of thanksgiving. |
▪ II. ˈsurfeiting, ppl. a.
[f. surfeit v. + -ing2.]
1. Given to excessive eating or drinking; gluttonous.
| 1588 Kyd Househ. Philos. Wks. (1901) 258 The most incontinent and surfeiting companion. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. i. i. 431 Surfetting courtiers and staulfed Gentlemen lubbers. |
2. Producing a state of surfeit or satiety.
| 1715 Nelson Addr. Pers. Qual. 77 The surfeiting Draught Solomon took of Pleasure. 1722 De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 258 It is a subject too surfeiting to entertain people with the beauty of a person they will never see. 1753 Richardson Grandison IV. xxxvi. 246 A fond husband is a surfeiting thing. 1809 Malkin Gil Blas vii. xv. ¶9 Unbounded prodigality in our..table, even to a surfeiting degree. |