sotted, ppl. a.
(ˈsɒtɪd)
[f. sot v., or aphetic form of assotted.]
Rendered sottish or stupid; besotted.
| c 1386 Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 788 This sotted prest, who was gladder þan he? 1387–8 T. Usk Test. Love i. x. (Skeat) l. 18 He..is holde for a foole, and sayd, his wit is but sotted. 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 3650 For ouht that I kan se, Ye be sottyd..Off newe. 1574 tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 49 The vngodly, being sotted in prosperitie, sleepe a dead sleepe. c 1585 [R. Browne] Answ. Cartwright 71 It is not a sotted nor wilfull ignorance. 1612 Two Noble K. iv. ii. 45, I am sotted, Vtterly lost: My Virgins faith has fled me. a 1637 T. Carew Poems, To B. Jonson (1870) 84 Thy just chastizing hand Hath fixt upon the sotted age a brand. 1693 Dryden Juvenal vi. 798 The potion..turns his brains... The sotted moon-calf gapes. 1826 W. Elliott The Nun 101 The dark confines of each sotted breast. 1898 Daily News 21 Feb. 3/4 It tried the sotted drunkard to reclaim. |
b. Const. with (or † of).
| c 1460 Sir R. Ros La Belle Dame 326 So dulle of wyte, so sotyd of folye. 1563 L. Blundeston Pref. in Googe's Eglogs (Arb.) 29 Yf the Muse Be sotted so with this graue Study. 1588 Greene Pandosto (1843) 18 Having her sences so sotted with care. 1609 Bible (Douay) Ecclus. xxiii. 19 Lest..being sotted with thy daily custom, thou suffer reproch. 1681 Dryden Span. Friar iv. ii, Had I not been sotted with my zeal, I might have found it sooner. |
† c. Const. of, on, or upon. Obs.
| 1470–85 Malory Arthur x. lvi. 508, I merueylle..what eyleth them to be soo mad and soo soted vpon wymmen. 1551 Warwick in Froude Hist. Eng. (1860) V. 354 note, These men..be so sotted of their wives and children. 1591 Lyly Endym. i. i, I hope you be not sotted upon the man in the Moone. 1691 J. Wilson Belphegor iii. iv, So sotted on her, he's not himself. |