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verb

Dog v. t. (past & past part. dogged; pres. part. dogging) To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity. "I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid." "Your sins will dog you, pursue you." "Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests."

adjective

Dogged adj.

Sullen; morose. (Obs. or R.) "The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged."

Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent; as, dogged resolution; dogged work; dogged pursuit.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dogged" Quotes from Famous Books

... personal fame seldom entered his head and when it did it made him rather uncomfortable, but his belief that he was gifted and destined to make a name for his country, sustained him in the struggle against the endless drudgery that always dogged the free ...

— Edward MacDowell • John F. Porte

... had invested him with the raiment of a no less splendid serenity. It was a brave and chivalrous soldier that stood there in the sight of all Florence, a figure infinitely better to my eyes than the scholar who dogged the footsteps of Brunetto Latini, or even than the poet whose songs had enchanted the city. For a scholar is often a thing of naught, and a poet, as I know, may be little enough, but our Dante, as he stood there and gave the pledge of peace, was ...

— The God of Love • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... dogged plunge our laden ship would press. If 'Fram' were "Forward," she was to be hereafter our 'Aurora' of ...

— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... cause, and had damages allowed him to the value of thirty minae. And now hating and fearing Aratus, he sought means to kill him, having the assistance herein of king Antigonus; so that Aratus was perpetually dogged and watched by those that waited for an opportunity to do this service. But there is no such safeguard of a ruler as the sincere and steady good-will of his subjects, for, where both the common people and the principal citizens have their fears not of but for their governor, ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... no more. Adieu! Your uncle must not know but you are dead; I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports: And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world, ...

— King John • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

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