Doted

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dote \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.]
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              He wol make him doten anon right.     --Chaucer.
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     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.
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              Time has made you dote, and vainly tell
              Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. --Dryden.
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              He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated,
              and doted long before he died.        --South.
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     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.
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              Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. --Shak.
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              What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. --
                                                    Pope.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Doted \Dot"ed\, a.
     1. Stupid; foolish. [Obs.]
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              Senseless speech and doted ignorance. --Spenser.
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     2. Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [Local, U. S.]
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