sotted

American  

[sot-id] / ˈsɒt ɪd /

adjective

1. drunken; besotted.

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Other Word Forms

• unsotted adjective

Etymology

Origin of sotted

1350–1400; Middle English, equivalent to sotten to be a sot (derivative of sot ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

I see for whom I must be sacrificed; And, had I not been sotted with my zeal, I might have found it sooner.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Madam, said Dinadan, I marvel of Sir Tristram and mo other lovers, what aileth them to be so mad and so sotted upon women.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

When the morning white and rosy breaks, With the gnawing Ideal, upon the debauchee, By the power of a strange decree, Within the sotted beast an Angel wakes.

From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles

XXV Compare me to Pygmalion with his image sotted, For, as was he, even so am I deceived.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

I had horses and Gungadhura took them all, but his brain was too sotted to think of camels, and I have camels waiting not many miles from here!

From Guns of the Gods by Mundy, Talbot