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"He was half-killed with a surfeit of Shene pippins." Thackeray: English Humorists; Swift . 2. Fullne and oppre ion of the system, arising from exce ive or gluttonous eating or drinking. "So prodigious in quantity, as would at another time have produced a fever or surfeit." -Anson: Voyages , bk. ii., ch. ii. II. Fig .: Disgust caused by satiety; satiety, nausea. "Zelmane thought it not good for his stomach to receive a surfeit of too much favor."-Sidney: Arcadia, bk. IMG:content-0629.png:[blocks in formation] *surfeit-swelled, a . Swelled out with gluttony or other over-indulgence. ( Shakesp .: Henry IV ., Pt. II., v. 5. *surfeit-water, s. Water for the cure of surfeits. "A little cold-distilled poppy-water, which is the true surfeit-water, with ease and abstinence, often ends distempers in the beginning."-Locke.