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besot, v.|bɪˈsɒt|
[f. be- + sot; cf. assot.]
1. trans. To affect with a foolish, blinding affection; to cause to dote on; to infatuate with.
1581Campion in Confer. iv. (1584) A a iiij b, He might be taken with the loue of his eies towards her, to be besotted with her. 1637Heywood Dial. ii. Wks. 1874 VI. 118 It shall besot thee on some sordid Swaine. 1675Art Contentm. viii. §5. 217 The kind aspects of the world are very enchanting, apt to inveigle and besot us. 1748–1864 [see besotted 1.].
2. To make mentally or morally stupid or blind; to stupefy in mind.
1615Bp. Hall Contempl. N.T. iv. iv, Impiety is wont to besot men. 1660Fuller Mixt Contempl. (1841) 231 Till they besot their understandings. 1822Hazlitt Men & Mann. Ser. ii. v. (1869) 122 Such persons are in fact besotted with words. 1877Sparrow Serm. xix. 249 To besot the minds of men with ignorance and superstition.
3. To stupefy in the brain, make a sot of. (Said of narcotics.) Also absol.
1627Drayton Agincourt, etc. 134 They no sooner tooke this drinke; But nought into their braines could sinke, Of what had them besotted. 1692Tryon Good House w. xxvi. 209 Opium..stupifying and besotting them, even as the superfluous drinking of..strong Drinks does. 1755Young Centaur ii. Wks. 1757 IV. 137 Pleasure..has an opiate in it; it stupefies, and besots. 1852Thackeray Esmond i. xiv, I besotted myself and gambled and drank. |