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.
puhekieltä A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
Bunyan
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.
Sir Philip Sidney
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.
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.