Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Dogged"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dog \Dog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dogged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{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. -- Pope.
Your sins will dog you, pursue you. --Burroughs.
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. -- South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dogged \Dog"ged\, a. [Fron. {Dog}.]
1. Sullen; morose. [Obs. or R.]
The sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged. -- Sir
W. Scott.
2. Sullenly obstinate; obstinately determined or persistent;
as, dogged resolution; dogged work.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dogged
adj : stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour
determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all
the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but
tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of
opinion" [syn: {bulldog}, {dour}, {pertinacious}, {tenacious},
{unyielding}]
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