Middle English Dictionary Entry
sotten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | sotten v. Also sot; sg.3 sottith, (early) sottæð; p. ppl. sotted(e, sottit, i)sōted & (early) sotten. |
| Etymology | From sot adj.; also cp. as(s)ōten v. & cp. MDu.sotten. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To be or become stupid or foolish; (b) to delude (sb.), confuse; blear (the sight); ppl. sotted, demented, confused, deluded; (c) ben sotted upon (on), to be infatuated with (sb. or sth.); ppl. sotted, deluded by love.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)80/11 : Ac þe mon goffæð & sottæð þe wule habben æniȝ þing ætforæn þam anginne ðe alle þing isceop.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)19/3 : Anticrist sittiþ & sottiþ in pees of þis world.
b
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8639 : Þe king Gillomar makede mucchel hoker & scarn, & seide þat heo weoren sotten iueren þat ouer sæ brade þider weoren iliðene to sechen þer stanes, ase in heore londe neoren nane.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.1341 : This sotted [vrr. sottid, sottede, sottide, soted] preest, who was gladder than he?
- c1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)286 : Elde..sotted my syghte.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4364 : Ne foloȝe we na ficesyens ne philisophour scolis As sophistri & slik thing to sott with þe pepill.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253:Bühler)81/20 : Sotted [StJ-C: Because þat such instrumentis assotith often þe hertis of men, it is seide to þe good knyȝt þat he schulde not delite him to myche þer-inne].
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)3650 : Ye resemble by your mood And by your port as ye wer wood, And for ouht that I kan se, Ye be sottyd [F assotee].
- a1500 ?Ros Belle Dame (Cmb Ff.1.6)326 : Ladyes beth not so symple..So dulle of wyte, so sotyd of folye.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)42/18 : He that..hath vertue habundaunt..and be nat welthed..is holde for a foole, and sayd his wit is but sotted.
c
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)1138 : Þere was [read: nas] man on lyve on vomman more be-dotid Then ffawnus was in Rame, ne halff so much I-sotyd.
- (1470) Paston (EETS)1.415 : I praye yow euyre haue an eyghe to Caster, to knowe the rewle there, and sende me worde, and whyther my wyse lorde and my lady be yit as sottyt vppon it as they were; and whether my seyd lorde resortythe thyddre as offte as he dyd or nott.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.A.1147 : This man so sotted was vppon his soone That he gave hym all that euer he hadde.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.A.1256 : Be not as a foole sotted, wanton, and wyse [read: vnwyse] To enfeffe thy children in castell and in toure.