sotted
Americanadjective
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
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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 hate to see a brave bold fellow sotted, Made sour and senseless, turned to whey by love; A drivelling hero, fit for a romance.—
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir
The people still regarded priests' wives much as concubines and the government spoke of clergymen as "sotted with their wives and children."
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
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
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