Definition of "besotted" []

• Infatuated (adjective)
• Intellectually or morally blinded (adjective)
• Intoxicated (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of besot. (verb)

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• "Are aliens voyeuristically studying a very small plot of earth, mainly a rain besotted suburban backyard and shed?"
• "How wretchedly are those intoxicated and besotted that suffer themselves at any time to be intoxicated, especially to be by the frequent commission of the sin besotted with wine or strong drink!"
• "So wretchedly besotted is he that he takes his slothfulness to be his wisdom; he thinks it is his wisdom to make much of himself, and take all the ease he can get, and do no more in religion than he needs must, to avoid suffering, to sit still and see what other people do, that he may have the pleasure of finding fault with them."