v. Obs. 4–5. Only in pa. pple. agroted, -yed, -eied. [Origin obscure; perhaps f. A- pref. 1 + grot a particle, or Norse grautr porridge. (Cf. also GROUT, to fill interstices with mortar.)] To cram, surfeit, cloy.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 2454. I am agrotyed here byforn To wryte of hem that ben on love for-sworn.
c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, V. xx. (1554), 136 a. Gorges agroteyed, enbossed their entrayle Disposeth men rather to rest and slepe.
