† aˈssot, v. Obs.
Forms: 2 asottie, 4 asote, 4–5 assote, 6–8 assot.
[a. OF. a(s)soter, f. à to + sot fool, sot.]
1. intr. To become or act like a fool; to become infatuated, foolishly fond, madly in love.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 17 Gif þu hine iseȝe þet he wulle asottie to þes deofles hond. 1393 Gower Conf. III. 235 That he ne assote To chaunge for the womanhed The worthinesse of his manhed. Ibid. 281 Eke I not for what emprise I shulde assote upon a nonne. |
2. trans. To make a fool of, infatuate, befool.
| 1393 Gower Conf. III. 237 Thilke firy rage Of love, which the men assoteth. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. 110 See how drunkenesse assotteth a man. a 1626 Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 348 They assot themselves, they will not conceive aright of their estates. ? 1741 Squire of Dames xxvii. in Dodsl. Poems (1770) IV. 130 As couthful fishers at the benty brook, By various arts assot the seely fry. |
3. in pa. pple. assotted. Infatuated.
| c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 2007 Þow ert a-sotid. 1393 Gower Conf. III. 270 The riche..Assoted were upon her love. 1474 Caxton Chesse 114 Loth..was assoted by moche drynkynge of wyn. 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. ccxxxvii. (ccxxxiii) 736 The kynge was so asotted on this syr Hugh Spenser. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xvii. (1660) 209 So much were the Israëlites assotted in Idolatry. |