a. Also 7–8 big(g)otted. [f. BIGOT + -ED2. (In 17th c. pronounced bigo·tted.)] Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion or party; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and intolerant towards others.

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1645.  Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 192. Though the least bigoted of all Roman Catholics.

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1682.  S. Pordage, Medal Rev., 336. One bigotted in the Romish way.

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1759.  Dilworth, Pope, 69. A bigotted Jacobite.

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1848.  H. Miller, First Impr., vii. 107. His bigoted, weak-minded sister, the bloody Mary.

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1875.  H. E. Manning, Mission H. Ghost, ix. 236. We are thought to be intolerant and bigoted, because we will keep no peace with heresy.

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a. 1704.  T. Brown, Sat. Antients, Wks. 1730, I. 22. Men who are biggoted to the opinions they have imbibed under their teachers.

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1782.  Miss Burney, Cecilia, IV. v. (1783), 199. Mr. Harrel has been so strangely biggotted to his friend.

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1816.  Byron, Ch. Har., II. xliv. So nursed and bigoted to strife.

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