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Definition of Besotted
1. Adjective. Very drunk.
Language type: Argot, Cant, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vernacular
Similar to: Drunk, Inebriated, Intoxicated
Definition of Besotted
1. a. Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied.
Definition of Besotted
1. Adjective. infatuated ¹
2. Adjective. intellectually or morally blinded ¹
3. Adjective. intoxicated ¹
4. Verb. (past of besot) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Besotted
1. besot [v] - See also: besot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Besotted
Literary usage of Besotted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"Eusebius wonders how that wise city of Athens, and flourishing kingdoms of Greece,
should be so besotted; and we in our times, how those witty Chinese, ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... should be so besotted ; and we in our times, how those witty Chinese, so
perspicacious in all other things should be so gulled, so tortured with ..."
3. Leaven for Doughfaces; Or, Threescore and Ten Parables Touching Slavery.: Or by Darius Lyman (1856)
"THE besotted ALIEN. The Alien who would ostracise the native Colored Man, should
not be surprised to find himself ostracised by the native White. ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... So that the meaning of these besotted Atheists (if at least they had any
meaning) seems to hare been this, that all cogitation is really nothing else ..."
5. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"225 ' BIBBER besotted, with scowl of a cur, having heart of a deer, thou! Never to
join to thy warriors armed for the press of the conflict, ..."
6. Letters of William Lee: Sheriff and Alderman of London; Commercial Agent of by William Lee (1891)
"The opposition in England seems as much besotted as the King and his ministers.
Indeed the wickedness, ye. villainy, and profligacy of these People seem to ..."
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