Read full poem →And all mankind might that just mean observe,
In which none e'er could surfeit, none could starve.
These as good works, 'tis true, we all allow;
Dictionary Entry
An excessive amount of something.
In a Sentence
“A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. surfeitreigns surfeit
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Poetry examples for “surfeit”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And hatching snakes from sticks in such a swarm
As quite to surfeit Aaron's bigger worm;
A nation which has got
Read full poem →Which, like a Phœnix, in that nest would lie,
And with a surfeit of these odours die,
Thus jealous grown, does with full cheeks oppose
Read full poem →Save what is had, or must from you be took.
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
Or gluttoning on all, or all away.