ppl. a. [f. SURFEIT sb. or v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Fed or filled to excess; oppressed or disordered by or as by over-feeding.

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1605.  Shaks., Macb., II. ii. 5. The surfeted Groomes doe mock their charge With Snores. Ibid. (1610), Temp., III. iii. 55. The neuer surfeited Sea.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, III. 758. They that feed th’ o’er-charg’d And surfeited lewd town with her fair dues.

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1842.  Manning, Serm. (1848), I. 22. Take a watchful, self-denying man … and compare him with the heavy, surfeited man.

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1886.  H. F. Lester, Under two Fig Trees, 182. And then divide the morsel among these already surfeited gluttons.

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  2.  Of a horse: Affected with the ‘surfeit.’ ? Obs.

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1667.  Dryden & Dk. Newcastle, Sir M. Mar-all, II. ii. His folly’s like a sore in a surfeited horse, cure it in one place, and it breaks out in another.

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1753.  J. Bartlet, Gentl. Farriery, 170. A horse is said to be surfeited, when his coat stares.

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