vbl. sb. [f. SOT v. + -ING1.] The fact or practice of playing the sot, or of indulging in sottish conduct.
1583. Babington, Commandm. (1590), 176. An example of vnmeasurable sotting in bed.
1603. Breton, Packet Mad Lett., I. xxviii. Now for sotting and slauery and for courting in knauery, be perswaded that time will imploy my purse to better purpose.
1707. Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.), II. 49. Which Faculty … he … lost by his Idleness and Sotting.
1760. Cautions & Advices to Officers of Army, 88. Perpetual Sotting cannot fail of blunting your Faculties.
1820. Hazlitt, Table-T., Ser. II. xvii. (1869), 358. Nothing could overcome this propensity to low society and sotting.
1869. H. Kingsley, Stretton, II. 206. She was a perfect and absolute mistress of the art of sotting.
