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besotted

verb
/bɪˈsɒtɪd/UK/bɪˈsɑtɪd/US

Etymology

From besot + -ed.

  1. derived from sottus
  2. inherited from sot
  3. inherited from sot
  4. prefixed as besot — “be + sot”
  5. formed as besotted — “besot + -ed”

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of besot

  2. Infatuated.

    • Paris, you ſpeake / Like one be-ſotted on your ſweet delights;
    • The few are philosophers besotted with admiration for the sound of their own lecturing voices, visionaries who waste their lives on fantastic impossibilities, or quacks whose ambition soars no higher than our corns.

  3. Intellectually or morally blinded.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Intoxicated, drunk.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at besotted. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at besotted. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at besotted

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA