Part 3410

<blockquote>He wol make him <b>doten</b> anon right. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.</def>

<blockquote>Time has made you <b>dote</b>, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and <b>doted</b> long before he died. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with <i>on or upon</i>; <as>as, the mother <ex>dotes</ex> on her child</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will <b>dote</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>What dust we <b>dote</b> on, when 't is man we love. <i> Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dote</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Dote</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An imbecile; a dotard.</def>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Doted</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Dot"ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Stupid; foolish.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Senseless speech and <b>doted</b> ignorance. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Half-rotten; <as>as, <ex>doted</ex> wood</as>.</def> <mark>[Local, U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Dotehead</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Dote"head`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dotard.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Tyndale.</i>

<h1>Doter</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Dot"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.</def>

<i>Burton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One excessively fond, or weak in love.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Dotery</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Dot"er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Doth</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Doth</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>3d pers. sing. pres.</tt> <def>of <er>Do</er>.</def>

<h1>Doting</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Dot"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That dotes; silly; excessively fond.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Dot"ing*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Dot"ing*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>