doggedadj.adv.

c1300 Childhood Jesus (Laud) l. 1228 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 42 (MED) So is folun and doget þat ilke luytel Jesuet..ich i-leue..þat he habbe a wei i-bore..mine cloþus.

?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 136 (MED) Þe fals wolf stode behind, He was doggid and ek felle.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 125/2 Doggyde, malycyowse, maliciosus, perversus, bilosus.

1540 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives Introd. Wysedome (new ed.) H viij b It is a token of a dogged harte, to rejoyce in an other mans mysfortune.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10379 Of so dogget a dede.

1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxii. xii Save..My desolated life from dogged might.

1617 N. Byfield Serm. First Chapter First Epist. St. Peter i. 42 Take heed of a swinish and dogged heart, the Lord will not cast pearles before such swine.

1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 48 Fortune unto them turn'd Dogged. For they a sad Adventure met.

1684 in Roxburghe Ballads (1895) VIII. 40 This dogged answer cut this poor soul to the heart.

1747 I. Watts Evangelical Disc. 307 Is he [sc. a Dog] not the Picture of Malice, when he grins with Fury?..Thus it becomes the very Image and Proverb of Ill-Nature as well as the Dog; so that Men of such a Temper are called dogged and waspish.

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 4028 Yf Bialacoil be sweete and free, Dogged and felle thou shuldist be.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 55 There is vaine-glory in..being Diogenicall and dogged.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 248 So his Steward..turn'd me out of doores. Which I tooke in that foule scorne..that in a kind of sullen and dogged fashion..I left the house.

1700 W. Philips St. Stephen's-Green i. 3 Oh, 'tis such a Comfort! When my Husband is in a Dogged Humour, to call for my Glass Chariot, take the Air on the Strand.

1757 J. Rutty Spiritual Diary 5 Feb. in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1791) II. 155 Very dogged or snappish.

1825 C. Dibdin Comic Tales 203 So have I seen some petted child, Some dimpled cherub, cross'd in will, Grow dogged, sullen, wayward, wild.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xli. 281 Legree..looked in, with a dogged air of affected carelessness, and turned away.

1883 R. Broughton Belinda II. iii. iii. 213 Her tone is brusque and dogged; but if she hopes by its means to rid herself of her companion she is mistaken.

1948 M. Hirsch William C. Whitney ii. 31 Once he was assigned by the Court to defend a dogged, sullen longshoreman who had been charged with murder.

2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 29 Jan. 23 Idamante is a sullen, dogged teenager, smitten with the blonde beauty Ilia.

1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. C1 The Snarle, a small dogged Pinnace, of more vse then profit.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 66 The most craggie steepe and dogged Hils in Persia.

1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 147 The Spanish [Iron] works tough, churlish and dogged.

1700 P. Motteux et al. tr. M. de Cervantes Hist. Don Quixote I. ii. iv. 107 Her courteousness and fair looks draw on every body to love her; but then her dogged, stubborn coyness [Sp. su desdén y desengañ] breaks their Hearts.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1779 II. 284 [He commended one of the Dukes of Devonshire for] ‘a dogged veracity’.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. iii. 79 An air of stupid impenetrability, which might arise either from conscious innocence or from dogged resolution.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies vii. 291 He was such a little dogged, hard, gnarly, foursquare brick of an English boy.

1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 20 In this domain nothing is denied to a dogged pertinacity.

1934 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 28 Sept. in Locked Rooms & Open Doors (1974) 202 It really was the persistent dogged hard work of the New Jersey State Police..that succeeded in tracking down that man.

1969 J. Quigley Astrol. for Adults (1970) vi. 148 That brand of dogged determination that succeeds over the long pull.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Jan. b13/1 Dreary, dogged research is a big part of penetrating the secrets of the espionage bureaucracy.

1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill 12 This dogged generation, that is euer barking against the Moone.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. iii. 150 Now for the bare-pickt bone of Maiesty, Doth dogged warre bristle his angry crest, And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace. View more context for this quotation

1658 J. Jones tr. Ovid Invective against Ibis 594 Dianas guard the Tragic poet slew, So be thou torn by a watchful dogged crew.

1740 P. Pineda New Dict., Spanish & Eng. (new ed.) at R This Letter..They call..dogged, because it sounds like the Noise a Dog makes when he growls.

1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 46 Your stomake was sick of that hunger, which for an inordinate appetite it breedeth, Physicians call the dogged appetite: more greedily disposed to deuoure and swallow vp all that it mett with, then able to concoct or to retaine well ought that it had taken.

1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids vi. 168 And through his treble throat it quickly snaps, In dogged-hunger, with his meager chaps.

1661 Manes Presbyteriani 2 Your appetite is not so fierce, nor your stomach so dogged as before.

1844 Monthly Rev. July 315 On these he feeds with the same dogged appetite as he does in England.

1917 C. M. Lowe Confessions Social Secretary 241 This time her patience got the better of her in the face of a dogged appetite. The appetite belonged to her guest of honor.

1985 Theatre Jrnl. 37 97 We might say that he is an Identity, his dogged appetite the guarantee of a certain predictable mirth.