| 释义 |
ˈsurfeited, ppl. a.
[f. surfeit n. or v. + -ed.]
1. Fed or filled to excess; oppressed or disordered by or as by over-feeding.
1605Shakes. Macb. ii. ii. 5 The surfeted Groomes doe mock their charge With Snores. 1610― Temp. iii. iii. 55 The neuer surfeited Sea. 1784Cowper Task iii. 758 They that feed th' o'er-charg'd And surfeited lewd town with her fair dues. 1842Manning Serm. (1848) I. 22 Take a watchful, self-denying man..and compare him with the heavy, surfeited man. 1886H. F. Lester Under two Fig Trees 182 And then divide the morsel among these already surfeited gluttons.
2. Of a horse: Affected with the ‘surfeit’. ? Obs.
1667Dryden & Dk. Newcastle Sir M. Mar-all ii. ii, His folly's like a sore in a surfeited horse, cure it in one place, and it breaks out in another. 1753J. Bartlet Gentl. Farriery 170 A horse is said to be surfeited, when his coat stares. |