surfeit

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɜː.fɪt/    美 /ˈsɝː.fɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An excessive amount of something. countable
    — A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.
  2. Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating. uncountable
    — I feel too much thy blessing: make it [this excess]less, For fear I surfeit! Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
  3. A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence. countable
    — King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
  4. Disgust caused by excess; satiety. countable,uncountable
    — Now for ſimilitudes in certain Printed diſcourſes, I thinke all Herberiſts, all ſtories of beaſts, foules, and fiſhes, are rifled vp, that they may come in multitudes to vvait vpon any of our conceits, which certainly is as abſurd a ſurfet to the eares as is poſsible.
  5. A group of skunks. countable
动词 v.
  1. To fill (something) to excess. transitive
    — 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;
  2. To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something). transitive
    — She surfeited her children on sweets.
  3. To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption. transitive
    — […] that proportion of meat surfetteth, and surchargeth the stomacks of some, which is not enough to satisfie the hunger of others,
  4. To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance. figuratively,transitive
    — 1697, Aphra Behn, “On an ungrateful and undeserving Mistress, whom he cou’d not help Loving” in Poems upon Several Occasions, London: Francis Saunders, p. 50, While some glad Rival in her Arms did lye, Glutted with Love and surfeited with Joy.
  5. To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess. figuratively,sometimes,transitive
    — […] his appetite for vulgar praise had not yet been surfeited;
  6. To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something). intransitive,reflexive
    — 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.
  7. To indulge (in something) to excess. figuratively,intransitive,reflexive
    — After surfeiting itself with the Feast here provided for it, the Eye, by using a little Exercise in travelling about the Country, grows hungry again, and returns to the Entertainment with fresh Appetite.
  8. To become sick from overindulgence. figuratively,intransitive,reflexive,sometimes
    — […] they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
形容词 adj.
  1. Sated; surfeited; filled. archaic
    — If it proceed from the third occaſion, which is ſurfeit of Meats and Drinks, either natural or unnatural, then the ſigns are theſe ; […]

词形变化

more surfeit comparative most surfeit superlative surfeits plural surfeits present,singular,third-person surfeiting participle,present surfeited participle,past surfeited past

词汇关系

衍生词
surfeit water surfeiter surfeitive unsurfeited unsurfeiting
相关词
surfeiting surfeitly surfeitness surfeitous

词源

词源 1
From Middle English surfeite, surfet, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman surfet, surfeit and Old French sorfet, sorfait, past participle of surfaire (“to augment, exaggerate, exceed”), from sur- (“over”) + faire (“to do”). The adjective is derived from the noun.
词源 2
From Middle English surfeite, surfet, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman surfet, surfeit and Old French sorfet, sorfait, past participle of surfaire (“to augment, exaggerate, exceed”), from sur- (“over”) + faire (“to do”). The adjective is derived from the noun.
词源 3
From Middle English surfeite, surfet, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman surfet, surfeit and Old French sorfet, sorfait, past participle of surfaire (“to augment, exaggerate, exceed”), from sur- (“over”) + faire (“to do”). The adjective is derived from the noun.
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