Besot

Word BESOT
Character 5
Hyphenation be sot
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Definitions and meanings of "Besot"

What do we mean by besot?

To muddle or stupefy, as with alcoholic liquor or infatuation. transitive verb

To infatuate; make a dotard of.

To stupefy; affect with mental or moral stupidity or blindness.

To make sottish, as with drink; make a sot of.

To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. transitive verb

To muddle, stupefy, or act foolishly; as with alcoholic liquor or infatuation. verb

Make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation verb

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The word "besot" in example sentences

The first known use of "besot" is found in a poem by George Turberville, published in 1567. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Would have been completely lost on me, but happened to be in Australia a few years ago when the whole country was besot with their superstar bowler (Sean Ware?) and they were playing the Ashes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Would have been completely lost on me, but happened to be in Australia a few years ago when the whole country was besot with their superstar bowler (Sean Ware?) and they were playing the Ashes.neurodoc(Quote) ❋ Unknown (2010)

They twin his ability to draw huge crowds, to capture the global imagination, to besot Sarkozy with a man swoon (more profound than a man crush), and allegedly to disable the media's skepticism the way scientists can knock out a gene. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He tried to see me again an 'again, an' wrote me letters an 'besot me in every way, knowin' as I wasn't worthy of you, an 'didn't love you as I ought. ❋ Unknown (1995)

Rose, unassuming, not even pretty, certainly tiresomely obtuse about some things, had wished him goodbye in a matter-of - fact manner which should have left him in no doubt as to her feelings, but her eyes, her lovely gentle eyes, mused Mr. Werdmer ter Sane besot - tedly, had betrayed her. ❋ Neels, Betty (1986)

When the intelligence becomes powerless to command and to say what and when and how the affections shall disport themselves, then man becomes a slave to his heart and is led like an ass by the nose hither and thither; and when nature thus runs unrestrained and wild, it makes for the mudholes of lust wherein to wallow and besot itself. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In many ways it besot him like orphic sound to a musician, or the tenebrisms of artists (Carvaggios like himself); but nonetheless he continued to project blame at the bearded anathema beneath him, and he still glanced down periodically at the floor hoping to find the putative agents of the odor, evidence to bolster his bilious conclusions, being in full denial of himself. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Oh, he had no right thus to besot himself with adoration! ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

I would chase all the cares that beset, if they ever besot. ❋ Various (1902)

Up at Fort Shurdan they had a ginmill where th 'warryors cud go an' besot thimsilves with bottled beer an 'dominoes. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)

And yet, in this little Rose-garden of ours -- the Human Soul - we tramp down the flowers, plant loathsome weeds and poisons that kill and degrade and besot us, set up the tables of the money-changers, drive out the doves of ❋ Unknown (1877)

Some sicknesses besot, others enrage men, some are too swift, and others too slow. ❋ 1608-1661 (1863)

What an ignominy would it be for them to be buried in idleness, and in the immoderate pursuit of pleasures and vicious courses, till they besot their understandings, when they see soldiers arrived at such an improvement, who were bred tailors, shoemakers, cobblers, &c. ❋ 1608-1661 (1863)

Chartism as synonymous with devil-worship, should bless and encourage them, for the very reason for which we working men ought to dread them; for, quickened into prurient activity by the low, novel-mongering press, they help to enervate and besot all but the noblest minds among us. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

How often do men, just for the pleasure of drink, besot their souls and bodies, madden their tempers, neglect their families, make themselves every Saturday night, and often half the week, too, lower than the beasts which perish. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

And even you, are you not daily besot to listen to the voice of the tempter? ❋ Unknown (1845)

This is one of the relics of the monkish system, the aim of which in all countries where it has existed, or does exist, seems to be to besot the minds of the people that they may be the more easily plundered and misled. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

They've besot the house, and are a givin 'lip to frighten folks. ❋ Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1830)

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