besot

And don't you forget You will ne'er be forgot, You never should fret As at times you have frot, I would chase all the cares that beset, if they ever besot.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

Nightmares Ride in their wake, the spirits to besot.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It will steal in upon you, grow upon you, beset and besot you, till you like no other place in the world so well.”

From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Oh, he had no right thus to besot himself with adoration!

From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

Ah cruel fates, why do you then besot Poor Corin's soul with love, when love is fled?

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Martha Foote Crow

“I was in awe of his intellect, dazzled by his wit, amazed by his fearlessness and spirit of adventure, besotted by his loving heart, and smitten by his beautiful blue eyes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

But it is basketball - not football - that New Yorkers are besotted with right now.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Mr. Paul and his collaborators are clearly besotted lovers as well as knowledgeable students of the musicals they are spoofing, so the evening’s spirit is exuberantly affectionate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

The dread comes from fears of a reinterpretation of John Galsworthy’s Nobel Prize-winning books, collectively known as “The Forsyte Saga,” to suit an audience besotted with “Bridgerton” and other sensual period adaptations.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026

By the time Herr Thiessen departs the circus, motivated solely by exhaustion, he is completely and utterly besotted.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

That delivers 0-60 mph acceleration pace in the 7s—adequate, though hardly besotting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2015

Our scientific assumptions admit just as much of an interpretation and utilisation in favour of a besotting philistinism—yea, in favour of bestiality—as also in favour of "blessedness" and soul-inspiration.

From We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 by J. M. (John McFarland) Kennedy

To accomplish these selfish projects, they applied every engine toward besotting the multitude with superstition and enthusiasm.

From Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by John Delafield

Losses and contumely, that had been incurred by the besotting prejudices of European commanders were beginning to be forgotten in the pride of success.

From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper

"Will you stand here besotting yourself, and allow your child to be flung into a pauper's grave?"

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson