surfeiting
- present participle of surfeit.
Example Sentences
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What the Valentine's cards forget is that the lovesick duke who speaks the words wants to overeat so that "surfeiting/ The appetite may sicken, and so die."
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013
They were easier to swallow because they lacked liver's surfeiting taste, and a dessertspoonful in water or tomato juice once a day was sufficient for health.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had always been bitterly contemptuous of the men that, surfeiting their appetites, showed at the impotent last a cheap repentance.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph
It is of surfeiting that the Son of God warns us to beware.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert
Sir 37:31 By surfeiting have many perished; but he that taketh heed prolongeth his life.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
