Noun : a surfeit of speechmaking. From Dictionary.com.
The other woman had surfeited him with classicalities. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
"Hath much soft persuasion surfeited thee into deafness?". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
And the surfeited grooms do mock their charge with snores. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
His mind was surfeited with so much excitement and danger. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
She told the King lately that she was surfeited with sights. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
Often the stomach rejects food simply because it is surfeited. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
Nay, even then, we only get them, as Servants do their surfeited. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753] Reference
She did not take it into account how surfeited the man was with his honeycomb. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
Delobelle, whom twenty years of exaggerated dramatic pantomime had not yet surfeited. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Truly, we have been surfeited with mistaken praise of small colleges and rural virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
The old Classical Drama of Greece and Rome died, surfeited with horror and uncleanness. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
Drunk and surfeited with the foul waters of the stream they had fished him out stone dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
To know was nothing -- his heart demanded to hear the good news and to be surfeited with hearing. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
First, I would reply, in rural communities where the people are not surfeited with entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
So many fell that the Romans became surfeited with slaughter and did not wish to pursue the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
In a short time she has become a neurotic, sated with company, surfeited with herself and the place. From Wordnik.com. [Look Back on Happiness] Reference
And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
"R was like the O.J. trial, where you got surfeited with DNA information you didn't really understand.". From Wordnik.com. [The Trial Of The Century] Reference
For the first type of conversation Stefan had still an appetite; with the second he was quickly surfeited. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Thou hast defied me, rebuffed me, thwarted me till the surfeited soul in me hath grown fat upon resistance. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
One quickly becomes surfeited, tired of unlimited candy, and so it also is with-with a mindless female body. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
The surfeited lump singing it calls Obama "The Great Reneger" ten times, each time with greater self-delight. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Kelly: The Secret Relevance of Glenn Beck's 9/11 Show REVEALED] Reference
A calf should never be surfeited, and never be fed so highly that it cannot be fed more highly as it advances. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
And when I had surfeited thy longing, and dismissed thee, I meant it to be the end, for it was all I had to give. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
But I don't -- I think we are so surfeited with television anyway that one more appearance or one less appearance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 4, 2009] Reference
She assured him she was surfeited with pageants, -- there was but one she wished yet to see, and that was a coronation. From Wordnik.com. [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference
Of course the clergyman always laid aside some of these things for other occasions, lest the children should be surfeited. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, December 30, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
(Elecampane); and how the Roman stomach, when surfeited with an excess of rich viands, pined for turnips, and the appetising. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The gods have been so surfeited by Gaya with clarified butter that they are not able to take anything that anybody else may offer. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
But the surfeited rich are more difficult to satisfy: they require time and everything to suit before they will consent to be happy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
People have been surfeited with sweetmeats and their digestion has been ruined: bitter medicines, sharp truths, are therefore necessary. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
These are usually served Bordelaise, and make quite a pleasant change when one is surfeited with other shell fish, but the best recipe is. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference
The other nations of the world, surfeited with sinful pleasure and worn out with a vain pursuit of happiness, were ready to abandon the gods of their imaginations. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
I drink gallons of it during the day and end my dinner with a cup or two of decaf, which is something of a joke since I am already surfeited with caffeine, my drug of choice. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Weston: Wolfgang Puck's Iced Coffee: A Heavenly Glass of Iced Joe!] Reference
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