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Dote

Dote (dote)
n.(?)
Dote
[See Dot dowry.]
  1. A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.
    Wyatt.
  2. Natural endowments.
    [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Dote

Dote (dote)
v. i.
Dote
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

Dote (dote)
n.
Dote
  1. An imbecile; a dotard.
    Halliwell.












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