Dote
[dəʊt] or [dot]
Definition
(verb.) shower with love; show excessive affection for; 'Grandmother dotes on her the twins'.
(verb.) be foolish or senile due to old age.
Typist: Terrence--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.
(n.) Natural endowments.
(v. i.) To act foolishly.
(v. i.) To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
(v. i.) 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.
(n.) An imbecile; a dotard.
Editor: Lou
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Drivel, be imbecile, be foolish.[2]. Be over-fond, be foolishly fond.
Editor: Shanna
Definition
v.i. (arch.) to be stupid or foolish: to be weakly affectionate: to show excessive love—formerly also spelt Doat.—ns. Dōt′age a doting: childishness of old age: excessive fondness; Dōt′ant (Shak.) a dotard; Dōt′ard one who dotes: one showing the weakness of old age or excessive fondness.—adj. Dōt′ed (Spens.) stupid.—n. Dōt′er one who dotes.—p.adj. and n. Dōt′ing.—adjs. Dōt′ish silly; Dot′tle (Scot.) stupid.—n. a dotard.—adj. Dot′ty feeble in mind: tottering.
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Examples
- Because, up to this time, he seemed to dote upon her,' said Childers, taking a step or two to look into the empty trunk. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I dote upon it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- What could I do, but kiss away her tears, and tell her how I doted on her, after that! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He doted on her boy--tenderly doted on him! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She was quite disappointed that Mr. Sedley was not married; she was sure Amelia had said he was, and she doted so on little children. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She doted on her eldest son and her youngest girl (a child of six), whom others thought her two naughtiest children. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Miss Eliza Higgins, as it will be perceived, doted on superlatives. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- On an eel-pasty he particularly doted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Oh, we shall never get to Brighton, said Fanny, who doted on donkey-riding. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She dotes on poetry, sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Sallie says they are very intimate now, and the old man quite dotes on them. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He dotes upon the children to the last and remembers the commission he has undertaken for an absent friend. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Don't it make him, perhaps, a little more remiss than usual in his visits to his blindly-doting--eh? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Hunchbacked, dwarfish, and doting, she was adorned like a barbarian queen. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Well, then, said Bois-Guilbert, I will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You could lead some doting fool; you might pin him to your apron. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Hold your tongue, you doting idiot! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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