surfeiting

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUR'FEITING, participle present tense Oppressing the system by excessive eating and drinking; cloying; loading or filling to disgust. SUR'FEITING, noun The act of feeding to excess; gluttony. Luke 21:34.
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