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Webster 1913 Edition


Cloyment

Cloy′ment

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Noun.
Satiety.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cloyment

CLOYMENT

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Noun.
Surfeit; repletion beyond the demands of appetite.

Definition 2024


cloyment

cloyment

English

Noun

cloyment (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) satiety
    • Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (act 2 scene 4)
      Alas, their love may be called appetite, no motion of the liver, but the palate, that suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt []