besotten

English

Adjective

besotten (comparative more besotten, superlative most besotten)

1. Alternative form of besotted
   • 1910, Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), The Countess of Albany:

     ... may have wakened whatever still remained of the gallant and high-spirited Polish nature in this morose and besotten old Stuart.

   • 1910, Selma Lagerlöf, The Girl From the Marsh Croft, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:

     It was painful for him to sit there, besotten and broken, and listen to others playing.

   • 1930 January 27, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time Magazine:

     Playwright Marquis devises considerable fun with the vagaries of ignorant and besotten men in contact with an approachable countess and a haughty courtesan

   • 2009, The Mixed Blessing: Caritas in Veritate, Part III‎^[1]:

     Now, one's mind is immediately brought to trips to Mexico by thousands of drunken, drug-besotten teenagers for "spring break" ...

Verb

besotten

1. past participle of besot