[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.
