surfeitive

adj

surfeitive

adj

Etymology From surfeit + -ive.

1

excessive

  • They lay thick, viscid underfoot, sweet and oversweet in the nostrils with a sweetness surfeitive and moribund, and at night now the ragged shadow of full-fledged leaves pulsed upon the barred window in shabby rise and fall.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 86:

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