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besotted

adjective

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Pronunciation: /bɪˈsɒtɪd/ / /bɪˈsɑtɪd/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English besot English -ed English besotted From besot + -ed.

  1. Infatuated.

    Paris, you ſpeake / Like one be-ſotted on your ſweet delights;

    Much did I wonder that so good a knight as Brian de Bois-Guilbert seemed so fondly besotted on the charms of this female, whom I received into this house merely to place a bar betwixt their growing intimacy, which else might have been cemented at the expense of the fall of our valiant and religious brother.

  2. Intellectually or morally blinded.
  3. Intoxicated, drunk.

    There are thousands who were begotten when both parents were besotted with drink, whose mothers saturated themselves with alcohol every day of their pregnancy, who may be said to have sucked in a taste for strong drink with their mothers' milk, and who were surrounded from childhood with opportunities and incitements to drink.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English besot English -ed English besotted From besot + -ed.

  1. simple past and past participle of besot