Besotted

/bɪˈsɒtɪd/ · verb

Meaning

simple past and past participle of besot.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of besot
2. Infatuated.
3. Intellectually or morally blinded.
4. (archaic) Intoxicated, drunk.

Example Sentences

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.

The few are philosophers besotted with admiration for the sound of their own lecturing voices, visionaries who waste their lives on fantastic impossibilities, or quacks whose ambition soars no higher than our corns.

‘They're educating me, man,’ he said about these besotted women, with whom he discussed international politics, South American literature, dance, and the ability of alcohol to induce mystic states.

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.

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Word Forms

• besotten
• more besotted
• most besotted

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