Middle English Dictionary Entry
as(s)ōten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | as(s)ōten v. Also asottie, assotten. |
| Etymology | OF assoter |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To act foolishly, play (into the Devil's hand); (b) assoted, befuddled, besotted; made a fool of, deceived.
Associated quotations
a
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)17 : Gif þu hine iseȝe, þet he wulle asottie to þes deofles hond and to his werkes.
b
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)2007 : Þow ert a-sotid..þy doȝtre wil þe schende.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.697 : I..stonde amased and assoted, That of nothing which I have noted I can noght thanne a note singe.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.2339 : This vice [flattery] scholde be refused, Wherof the Princes ben assoted.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)795/9 : Anone as he had drunken that wyne he was so asoted and madde that he myght make no delay, but wythoute ony let he wente to bedde.
- a1500 ?Ros Belle Dame (Cmb Ff.1.6)682 : When ye abyde goode hope to make you fayne, ye schal be founde a-sotyde in dotage.
2.
(a) To fall madly in love, become infatuated; ~ (up)on (sb., sth.); -- also refl.; (b) ben assoted, be infatuated; ~ of love; ~ of (oneself); (c) of love: to become fatuous; to infatuate (sb.).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.508 : Thei [sailors] herkne and in such wise assote, That thei here rihte cours and weie Foryete.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.781 : Sche may noght lette the corage Of him that wole on hire assote.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.2269 : And sche made Hercules so nyce Upon hir Love and so assote [rime: cote].
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.1437 : Thei make him love in such a rage And upon hem assote so [etc.].
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.1458 : Uluxes..broght hem [Calypso & Circe] into such a rote That upon him thei bothe assote..He kepte him sobre and made hem wilde.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)36 : The good knygh shuld not be assottede of sych a made ymage in sych wise..It longghit nothyng ffor a prynce to assote hym on nothyng that is to be reproued.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)74 : Opon the harpe assot the not to sore, Off Orpheus.
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.6841 : Whan that he hire beaute syh, Out of his wit he was assoted.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.80 : The moste wise Ben otherwhile of love adoted, And so bewhaped and assoted.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)28 : He was so amerous and assottede of hym selfe that he dyede after that he hade beholden hym selfe in the welle.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)106 : Achilles was asotyd in lowe of Polexene.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)125/8 : He was assoted uppon hir.
c
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.1251 : Whan that love assoteth sore, It passeth alle mennes lore.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.4319 : Thilke fyri rage Of love, which the men assoteth.