surfeit

surfeit

1. liika määrä, liikatarjonta, liiallisuus, enemmän kuin tarpeen oleva määrä

Synonyymisanakirja

surfeit

syönti, syöminen, ruokailu, ylensyöminen, mässäily, ylirunsaus, liikamäärä, liiallisuus, yltäkylläisyys, liikatarjonta, ylitarjonta, ylimäärä, liika, suoda itselleen, nautiskella, ahtaa täyteen, ylensyödä, varustaa, antaa, tarjota, kalustaa, mässäillä.

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Englannin sanakirja

surfeit englanniksi

1. puhekieltä An excessive amount of something.

A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.

2. puhekieltä overindulgence Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.

3. Shakespeare

Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.

4. (RQ:Authorized Version)

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.

5. puhekieltä A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.

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

6. Bunyan

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

7. Disgust caused by excess; satiety.

8. Burke

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

9. 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.

10. puhekieltä To fill to excess.

11. 1610, s:The Tempest|The Tempest, by w:William Shakespeare|Shakespeare, act 3 scene 3

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;

12. puhekieltä To feed someone to excess.

She surfeited her children on sweets.

13. puhekieltä To overeat or feed to excess.

14. 1906, O. Henry, s:The Furnished Room|The Furnished Room

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.

15. puhekieltä To sicken from overindulgence.

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