Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swelled with a surfeit, or excessive eating and drinking or other over-indulgence.
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Examples
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Profane and surfeit-swelled he certainly was, the majestic trumpetings becoming louder but less amusing, as of a dying pachyderm, while he became more of a fool and less of a jester.
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Profane and surfeit-swelled he certainly was, the majestic trumpetings becoming louder but less amusing, as of a dying pachyderm, while he became more of a fool and less of a jester.
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In the old play, “The Famous Victories,” the sentence of banishment is pronounced; but this bitter contempt for the surfeit-swelled, profane old man is Shakespeare's.
The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909
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In the old play, "The Famous Victories," the sentence of banishment is pronounced; but this bitter contempt for the surfeit-swelled, profane old man is Shakespeare's.
The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893
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