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Definitions for: Dote [v] shower with love; show excessive affection for; "Grandmother dotes on her the twins"
[v] be foolish or senile due to old age
Webster (1913) Definition: Dote, n. [See Dot dowry.]
1. A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n. --Wyatt.
2. pl. Natural endowments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Dote, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Doted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Doting.] [OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze,
Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t?zen to keep still: cf.
F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or
senselessly), which are from the same source.] [Written also
doat.]
1. To act foolishly. [Obs.]
He wol make him doten anon right. --Chaucer.
2. To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the
intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind
wanders or wavers; to drivel.
Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms
imagined in your lonely cell. --Dryden.
He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated,
and doted long before he died. --South.
3. To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to
be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother
dotes on her child.
Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. --Shak.
What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. --
Pope.
Dote, n.
An imbecile; a dotard. --Halliwell.
See Also: age, get on, love, maturate, mature
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