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besotted - 3 dictionary results

be⋅sot

[bi-sot]
–verb (used with object), -sot⋅ted, -sot⋅ting.
1. to intoxicate or stupefy with drink.
2. to make stupid or foolish: a mind besotted with fear and superstition.
3. to infatuate; obsess: He is besotted by her youth and beauty.

Origin:
1575–85; be + sot


be⋅sot⋅ted⋅ly, adverb
be⋅sot⋅ted⋅ness, noun
be⋅sot⋅ting⋅ly, adverb
be·sot   (bĭ-sŏt')   
tr.v.   be·sot·ted, be·sot·ting, be·sots
To muddle or stupefy, as with alcoholic liquor or infatuation.

[be- + sot, to stupefy (from sot, fool; see sot) or from assot, to befool (from Old French assoter, from sot, foolish).]

Besotted

Be*sot"ted\, a. Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." --Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. --Milton.
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