surfeiter

surfeiter

English

Etymology

From surfeit +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜːfɪtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝːfɪtɚ/
• Hyphenation: sur‧feit‧er

Noun

surfeiter (plural surfeiters)

1. A person who surfeits or overeats.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i], page 345:

     […] I did not thinke / This amorous Surfetter would haue donn’d his Helme / For such a petty Warre:

   • 1637, attributed to Walter Raleigh, The Life and Death of Mahomet, the Conquest of Spaine, together with the Rysing and Ruine of the Sarazen Empire, London: […] R[alph] H[odgkinson] for Daniel Frere, […], OCLC 504366114, page 145:

     Surfetters, and Cormorants he compared to beasts voyd of reason.

     Although Raleigh is named as the author on the title page of the work, it is doubted that he is the author.

   • 1954, uncredited translator, Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Chapter 10, p. 148,

     […] the spontaneous reaction against the crying social inequalities, against the contrast between rich and poor, the feudal lords and their serfs, the surfeiters and the starving;