a. poet. rare. [f. SURGE sb. + -FUL.] Full of surges or billows.

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1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., i. 212. Her soveraigne when shee sees t’approach the surgefull deepe. Ibid., xiv. 214. Upon her spacious breast tossing the surgefull tides.

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1877.  Blackie, Wise Men, 192. Upon that surgeful sea where you are launched.

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