ppl. a. [f. BLOT v. + -ED.] Spotted or stained with ink, etc.; blurred.
1499. Promp. Parv., 41. Blottyd, oblitteratus.
1597. Thynne, Names & Arms, in Animadv. (1865), Introd. 100. And for … the blotted and rude wrytinge, I craue your Lordship also to passe yt ouer.
1751. Johnson, Rambl., No. 169, ¶ 11. The blotted manuscripts of Milton now remaining.
1876. Blackie, Songs Relig. & Life, 201. Gorgeous Nature’s pictured show Is now a blotted book.
b. fig. Soiled, tarnished, stained.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., II. i. 20. Now therefore Ladie … see the saluing of your blotted name.
1817. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. IV. ix. 304. Consideration of his services, blotted by offences, yet splendid and great.
