Besotting

ppl. a. [f. BESOT + -ING².] Infatuating, stupefying.

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1762. Fielding, Ess. Convers., Wks. (1840), 636. The beastly custom of besotting and ostentatious contention for preeminence in their cups.

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1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, in Cornh. Mag., VI. 435. To steal over my senses like besotting wine.

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