besot

• “The first known use of "besot" is found in a poem by George Turberville, published in 1567.”

  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

• “Would have been completely lost on me, but happened to be in Australia a few years ago when the whole country was besot with their superstar bowler (Sean Ware?) and they were playing the Ashes.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Iceland Jokes

• “Would have been completely lost on me, but happened to be in Australia a few years ago when the whole country was besot with their superstar bowler (Sean Ware?) and they were playing the Ashes.neurodoc(Quote)”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Iceland Jokes

• “They twin his ability to draw huge crowds, to capture the global imagination, to besot Sarkozy with a man swoon (more profound than a man crush), and allegedly to disable the media's skepticism the way scientists can knock out a gene.”

  Adam Hanft: From Swiftboating to Doppelganging -- A Glimpse into McCain's Deep Brain Political Strategy

• “He tried to see me again an 'again, an' wrote me letters an 'besot me in every way, knowin' as I wasn't worthy of you, an 'didn't love you as I ought.”

  Smethurstses

• “Rose, unassuming, not even pretty, certainly tiresomely obtuse about some things, had wished him goodbye in a matter-of - fact manner which should have left him in no doubt as to her feelings, but her eyes, her lovely gentle eyes, mused Mr. Werdmer ter Sane besot - tedly, had betrayed her.”

  A Girl Named Rose

• “In many ways it besot him like orphic sound to a musician, or the tenebrisms of artists (Carvaggios like himself); but nonetheless he continued to project blame at the bearded anathema beneath him, and he still glanced down periodically at the floor hoping to find the putative agents of the odor, evidence to bolster his bilious conclusions, being in full denial of himself.”

  An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

• “When the intelligence becomes powerless to command and to say what and when and how the affections shall disport themselves, then man becomes a slave to his heart and is led like an ass by the nose hither and thither; and when nature thus runs unrestrained and wild, it makes for the mudholes of lust wherein to wallow and besot itself.”

  Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

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

  Chivalry

• “I would chase all the cares that beset, if they ever besot.”

  The Book of Humorous Verse

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