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sottish, a.|ˈsɒtɪʃ|
Also 6 shottishe.
[f. sot n.1 + -ish.]
†1. Foolish, doltish, stupid:
a. Of persons, or their faculties. Obs.
1566Drant Horace, Sat. ii. iii. F viij, Ye shottishe, dotishe, doultishe dawes. 1583Greene Mamillia Wks. (Grosart) II. 292, I meane not to be so..sottish as with free consent to crosse my selfe with perpetuall calamitie. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xiv. (1651) 126 Such are many sottish Princes, brought into a fools Paradise by their parasites. 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. i. xi. (1696) 47 The sottish Extract of an ancient Nobility may be preferr'd before a better Man. 1708Swift Predict. for 1708 Wks. 1755 II. i. 150 How ignorant those sottish pretenders to astrology are in their own concerns. 1737Whiston Josephus, Antiq. ix. xii. §3 This king was so sottish and thoughtless of what was for his own good, that he would not leave off worshipping the Syrian gods when he was beaten by them.
†b. Of things or actions. Obs.
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 87 What is it that this blinde and sottish love draweth not a man headlong into? 1614Raleigh Hist. World i. 181 It were sottish to conceive, that he would permit the Divell..to raise a Prophet from the dead in Saul's respect. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. ii. Wks. 1851 III. 155 O but..the sottish absurdity of this excuse! 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 62 It's altogether as reasonable as this sottish opinion of the Atheists. 1755B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. 169 'Tis sottish to imagine that they were made to answer no End, but Man's Luxury, Diversion, or Use. 1796Bp. Watson Apol. Bible 207 A style of extreme arrogance, and sottish self-sufficiency.
2. Given or addicted to, characterized or affected by, excessive drinking or coarse self-indulgence. Also absol.
1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 92 A right name for so sottish a fellow, for..I neuer saw him..truely sober. 1642D. Rogers Naaman 4 Implunged into a life of sence and sottish sensuality. a1721Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1753) II. 160 What else are..the sottish debauches..of Alexander the Great? 1785Paley Mor. Philos. iii. iii. ix, I would make choice of..a town-life, for the mercenary and sottish. 1811A. T. Thomson Lond. Disp. (1818) 292 The effects of opium..are..loss of appetite and a sottish appearance. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 453 People who saw him only over his bottle would have supposed him to be a man gross indeed, sottish, and addicted to low company. 1871C. Gibbon Lack of Gold xii, His face was sallow and sottish.
Comb.1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 150 A slip⁓shod, sottish-looking tailor. |
