ppl. a. [f. SOT v., or aphetic form of assotted.] Rendered sottish or stupid; besotted.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Can. Yeom. Prol. & T., 788. This sotted prest, who was gladder þan he?
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, I. x. (Skeat), l. 18. He … is holde for a foole, and sayd, his wit is but sotted.
1426. Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 3650. For ouht that I kan se, Ye be sottyd … Off newe.
1574. trans. Marlorat’s Apocalips, 49. The vngodly, being sotted in prosperitie, sleepe a dead sleepe.
c. 1585. [R. Browne], Answ. Cartwright, 71. It is not a sotted not wilfull ignorance.
1612. Two Noble K., IV. ii. 45. I am sotted, Vtterly lost: My Virgins faith has fled me.
a. 1637. T. Carew, Poems, To B. Jonson (1671), 90.
| Tis true (dear Ben:) thy just chastizing hand | |
| Hath fix’d upon the sotted Age a brand | |
| To their swoln pride. |
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, vi. 798. The potion … turns his brains…. The sotted moon-calf gapes.
1826. W. Elliott, The Nun, etc. 101.
| Then may the spirit of your native land, | |
| Pierce the dark confines of each sotted breast. |
1898. Daily News, 21 Feb., 3/4.
| It tried to tax the landlords’ ground in London; | |
| It tried to get cheap water for the Poor; | |
| It tried the sotted drunkard to reclaim; | |
| It tried to get for all a living wage. |
b. Const. with (or † of).
c. 1460. Sir R. Ros, La Belle Dame, 326. So dulle of wyte, so sotyd of folye.
1563. Blundeston, Pref., in Googe’s Eglogs (Arb.), 29. Yf the Muse Be sotted so with this graue Study.
1588. Greene, Pandosto (1843), 18. Having her sences so sotted with care.
1609. Bible (Douay), Ecclus. xxiii. 19. Lest … being sotted with thy daily custom, thou suffer reproch.
1681. Dryden, Span. Friar, IV. ii. Had I not been sotted with my zeal, I might have found it sooner.
† c. Const. of, on, or upon. Obs.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, X. lvi. 508. I merueylle … what eyleth them to be soo mad and soo soted vpon wymmen.
1551. Warwick, in Froude, Hist. Eng. (1860), V. 354, note. These men … be so sotted of their wives and children.
1591. Lyly, Endym., I. i. I hope you be not sotted upon the man in the Moone.
1691. J. Wilson, Belphegor, III. iv. So sotted on her, he’s not himself.
