† surfetous, a. (adv.) Obs.
Forms: 4–6 -ouse, 5 surf(f)etus, 6 surfettouse.
[a. AF. surfetous, f. surfet surfeit n.: see -ous.]
Immoderate, intemperate; surfeited with food or drink.
| a 1400 Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xlix. 382 Large table and plentyuouse Makeþ men of Ianglyng surfetouse. 1422 Yonge tr. Secr. Secr. lxv. 242 To kepe covstoume is moche wourth to mayntene hele, so that hit be not surfetouse. 1552 Huloet, Surfetouse, crapulosus. |
b. adv. Excessively, superabundantly.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 4219 Hyt semys not surfetus harde No vnpossibill. Ibid. 9352 Surffetus mony, Bothe of kynges, & knightes & kid men of armes. |
So
ˈsurfetry (also 5
serfetrie) [after
surquidry], (
a) presumption, (
b) surfeit;
† ˈsurfeture [
cf. OF. surfeiture arrogance],
† ˈsurfety, surfeiting.
| c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 13133 Hit was open *surfetrie, And on gret pride & folye. |
| 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 389 Sum men dremyn for *surfeture Þat etyn or drynkyn ouer mesure. |
| a 1450 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 286 So þe seek wol do wysely, And kepe him-self fro *surfety [v.r. serfetrie]. 1561 Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 20 b, Then must the harte nedes waxe faynte, as well as of excesse of fyllinge or surffetty. |