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Quotation dates: 1640
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Sot, v. [Late ME sott (a1450) to render foolish or doltish, 17th c. Eng. sotting pres. p. (1633) playing the sot; drinking to excess; Sot n. b.] intr. To behave in a foolish manner on account of excessive drinking. — 1640 Lithgow Poet. Remains 252.
How can His Lord give trust, to such a frantick man: A daily drunkard, sotting here and there, Led with deboshrie, and infernall care
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