What's the difference between hath and surfeit?

Hath


Definition:

  • (3d pers. sing. pres.) Has.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned.” “We have never been an ordinary political party,” Salmond told his audience.
  • (2) Once more the English disease of giving to him that hath, particularly in London or the golden triangle.
  • (3) Photograph: Heritage Lottery Fund The cottage in Grasmere – which the poet called “the loveliest spot that man hath ever found” – was once a pub called the Dove and Olive Branch.
  • (4) Hell hath no fury like a mad techie scorned and, once the bill had passed, attention shifted to listing MPs who had vote no, or not voted at all – particularly those in marginal seats such as Glenda Jackson and Frank Dobson.
  • (5) Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November.
  • (6) A case of hell hath no fury like the former partner who isn't getting enough attention these days?
  • (7) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
  • (8) Hell hath no fury like a Hollywood studio prevented from making vast amounts of money, in this case from slot machines based on beloved literary legacies.
  • (9) The property managers decided to tweet an appeal for people to help identify the text, and Breslin said that within an hour a tweet came back saying "Try Genesis 30:6", which reads: "And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son."
  • (10) "F alsehood flies," wrote Jonathan Swift 300 years ago, "and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect."
  • (11) Consider God’s handiwork: who can make straight, what He hath made crooked?” These words, from Ecclesiastes, pose a pertinent question.
  • (12) As senator Madigan hath stated ‘Submarines are the spaceships of the oceans’.
  • (13) Thomas Dekker groused that “the scene after the Epilogue hath been more blacke – a nasty bawdy jigge – than the most horrid scene in the play was”.
  • (14) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like a nation scorned,” Salmond told a rapturous audience at Perth conference hall as he handed over power to his successor as party leader, Nicola Sturgeon.
  • (15) "For whosoever hath, to [her] shall be given … but whosoever hath not, from [her] shall be taken away even that [she] hath."
  • (16) Hell hath no fury like a room full of disappointed Star Wars acolytes: a Disney boss at a high profile convention in California has been booed after admitting he had nothing new to tell fans about JJ Abrams' forthcoming Episode VII.
  • (17) David Cameron has briefed against his own chief whip, and may yet illustrate Jeremy Thorpe's quip about Harold Macmillan, an earlier Etonian premier: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his friends for his life."
  • (18) Verily, “For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath” ( Mark 4:25 ).
  • (19) My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal."
  • (20) Looking at her policies, I can only imagine her favourite Bible verse to be Matthew 25:29: “For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.” Austerity isn’t inevitable or even advisable, as the IMF, OECD and all the rest will tell you.

Surfeit


Definition:

  • (n.) Excess in eating and drinking.
  • (n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
  • (n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
  • (v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
  • (v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
  • (v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
  • (v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm reminded of something Cooper said earlier, when talking about the pressures of this time of year for working parents, with its surfeit of plays and, "Oh God, not another school fair".
  • (2) This very tight clustering suggests a cis interaction between adjacent Surfeit genes.
  • (3) The clustered arrangement (no two adjacent genes are separated by more than 73 base pairs [bp] and two genes overlap by 133 bp at their 3' ends) of the four genes (Surf-1 to -4) identified so far in the mouse surfeit locus (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.
  • (4) The organization of the mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains six housekeeping genes (Surf-1-Surf-6), which are unrelated by sequence homology, in the tightest mammalian gene cluster thus far described.
  • (5) When the faculty status of women and men academic anesthesiologists was examined a significant difference was found in rank distribution in age groups 40 to 44 (P less than 0.005) and 45 to 49 (P less than 0.001), where there was a deficit of professors and a surfeit of instructors among women.
  • (6) Here's Niall Mullen: "As a Liverpool fan who can barely buy his own groceries I am going to be outraged, outraged I tell you, if we fail to procure a player I've never heard of, who plays in a position in which we have a surfeit of players, for a club I've never seen play."
  • (7) We found no evidence of an initial surfeit of processing units, dendritic branches, or synapses.
  • (8) In this endocrine control, the renin axis provides the primary defence against sodium volume depletion and hypotension while atrial hormone plays an increasingly active counter-role for coping with situations that involve a sodium-volume surfeit or rising blood volume or blood pressure levels.
  • (9) Profound changes are occurring in the health care system, including a surfeit of physicians, cost containment, and competition.
  • (10) Using an interspecies backcross, we have mapped the HOX-5 and surfeit (surf) gene clusters within the proximal portion of mouse chromosome 2.
  • (11) In the adult, sodium surfeit is associated with an increase in urinary dopamine; the opposite occurs in the young.
  • (12) But we've had a surfeit of "behind the scenes" pictures of both coalition leaders; too many pictures of Cameron gurning at his new baby have led to this sort of material becoming a devalued currency.
  • (13) Responses to the energy surfeit led to intakes 104% and 116% of baseline, respectively.
  • (14) Since a repository would be expected to accumulate surplus material, one would predict that phosphorylase, which contains stoichio-metric amounts or pyridoxal phosphate, would increase in muscle of animals surfeited with the vitamin.
  • (15) What is called progress seems often to bring a surfeit of new experiences, facts, machines, noises, producing a feeling of helplessness, almost of despair.
  • (16) These data support the hypothesis that a surfeit of opioidergic ligand may potentiate drinking of alcoholic beverages.
  • (17) The concept of a basal level of body sodium (Strauss' state 'between surfeit and deficit') was studied by means of body sodium measurements in rats on different sodium intakes, in some cases after diuretic pretreatment.
  • (18) The invading fibers appear to encounter resistance at the basal lamina, but, once within the epithelium, at embryonic days 8-9, they form a surfeit of branches in columnar zones oriented radially toward the surface.
  • (19) Relative to their energy consumption on the medium-fat diet, the subjects spontaneously consumed an 11.3% deficit on the low-fat diet and a 15.4% surfeit on the high-fat diet (p less than 0.0001), resulting in significant changes in body weight (p less than 0.001).
  • (20) The mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains a number of closely clustered genes (Surf-1, -2, and -4) that alternate in their direction of transcription (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.