surfeit

ahtaa täyteen, ylensyödä

ylimäärä

mässäily puhekieltä An excessive amount of something.

A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.

Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.

to prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels

Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.

Now for similitudes in certain printed discourses, I think all herbalists, all stories of beasts, fowls, and fishes are rifled up, that they may come in multitudes to wait upon any of our conceits, which certainly is as absurd a surfeit to the ears as is possible.

You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,

That hath to instrument this lower world

And what is in't,—the never-surfeited sea

Hath caused to belch up you;

She surfeited her children on sweets.

To the door of this, the twelfth house whose bell he had rung, came a housekeeper who made him think of an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers.