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Webster 1913 Edition

Dote

Dote

,
Noun.
[See
Dot
dowry.]
1.
A marriage portion.
[Obs.]
See 1st
Dot
,
Noun.
Wyatt.
2.
pl.
Natural endowments.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

Dote

,
Verb.
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[GREEK]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
.
Shakespeare
What dust we
dote
on, when ’t is man we love.
Pope.

Dote

,
Noun.
An imbecile; a dotard.
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dote

DOTE

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To be delirious; to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to be silly.
Time has made you dote, and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
2.
To be excessively in love; usually with on or upon; to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance.
What dust we dote on, when tis man we love.
Aholah dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. Ezekiel 23.
3.
To decay.

Definition 2024

doté

doté

See also: dote

French

Verb

doté m ‎(feminine singular dotée, masculine plural dotés, feminine plural dotées)

  1. past participle of doter

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doˈtʲeː/

Verb

do·té

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive of do·téit

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·té do·thé do·té
pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Verb

doté

  1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of dotar.

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