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▪ I. dote, n.1
[f. dote v.1: with sense 2 cf. MDu. dote folly, weakness of mind.]
†1. A foolish or weak-minded person; a dotard. Obs.
a1250Prov. ælfred 422 in O.E. Misc. 128 Ich holde hine for dote [v.r. a dote] þat sayþ al his wille. c1320Sir Beues 217 Aȝilt þe, treitour ! þow olde dote! c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 27 Hit is wonder that I last sich an old dote Alle dold. 15..Smythe & Dame 325 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 213 Come forthe, olde dote. 1630Tinker of Turvey, Seamans T. 103 How did his death-bed make him a doate!
†2. A state of stupor; dotage. Obs.
1619Z. Boyd Last Battell (1629) 529 (Jam.) Thus after as in a dote he hath tottered some space about, at last he falleth downe to dust.
†3. A piece of folly. Cf. dotery. Obs.
1643Plain English 18 The votes (to them now ridiculous and call'd dotes) passed against them.
4. Decay in wood. (Cf. dote v.1 4.)
a1877Knight Dict. Mech. I. 564/1 Clear-stuff, boards free from knots, wane, wind-shakes, ring-hearts, dote, sap. 1905Terms Forestry & Logging 35 Dote, the general term used by lumbermen to denote decay or rot in timber. 1968Gloss. Terms Timber Preservation (B.S.I.) 9 Dote..is commonly applied to timber that is slightly affected by decay and is not acceptable for certain purposes.
▪ II. dote, n.2 arch.|dəʊt|
[app. a. 16th c. F. dote, var. of dot, ad. L. dōt-em (dōs) dowry, see dot n.2]
1. A woman's marriage portion; endowment, dowry. (Now usually superseded by dot from Fr.)
1515Mary Tudor Let. to Hen. VIII, in Facism. Nat. MSS. II. vii, I am contented..to geue you all the hoole dote whiche was delyuered with me. 1538Starkey England ii. i. 151 To the dote of pore damosellys and vyrgynys. 1676Coke Circumcision Mustapha in Harl. Misc. (1745) V. 347 Four Millions..of Dollars, which is her Dote. 1753in Doran ‘Mann’ & Manners (1876) I. xv. 353 She..insisted upon the restitution of her Dote. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xv. 278 The amount of dotes and dowries..and other legal details, were elaborately discussed.
†2. fig. (Usually in pl.) A natural gift or endowment. Obs.
1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. Pref. 4 Through the dotes and qualities of the soule. 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. (1622) 276 Extolling the goodly dotes of Mopsa. 1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 366 Cloathed with four glorious dotes, or endowments, impassibility, subtilty, agility, and clarity.
▪ III. dote, doat, v.1|dəʊt|
Forms: 3 dotie(n, doten, 5 doyt(e, doote, 3– dote, 6– doat.
[Early ME. doten, dotien (of which no trace is known in OE.), corresponds to MDu. doten to be crazy or silly, to dote. Kilian has, in same sense, doten, = dutten: cf. mod.Du. dutten to take a nap, to dote, dutter a doter, etc., also MHG. totzen to take a nap (:—*dottôjan), Icel. dotta to nod from sleep.
The LG. stem doten was the source of OF. redoter, mod.F. radoter to rave, dote; the close parallelism of sense between F. radoter, radoté, and Eng. dote, doted, and the presence of Eng. derivatives with F. suffixes, as dotage, dotant, dotery = F. radotage, radotant, radoterie, show an intimate connexion between the F. and Eng. words, as if the latter were immediately from an AF. *doter for OF. redoter.]
I. intr.
1. To be silly, deranged, or out of one's wits; to act or talk foolishly or stupidly.
a1225Ancr. R. 224 Heo ualleð..into deop þouht, so þet heo dotie. a1225Leg. Kath. 2111 Hu nu, dame, dotestu? 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 403 Me semeth þat þey doteþ [mihi desipere videntur]. c1440York Myst. xxxi. 259 Whedir dote we or dremys? 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Acts xxvi. 24 [Felix] sayd with a loude voyce, Thou dotest Paul. 1611Bible 1 Tim. vi. 4 Doting [Tindale, etc. wasteth his braynes] about questions, and strifes of wordes. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iii. 71 Every evening he..doted. 1798Coleridge Fears in Solit. v. 171 Others..Dote with a mad idolatry. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xxxv. 12 She..Doats, as hardly within her own possession.
2. Now esp. To be weak-minded from old age; to have the intellect impaired by reason of age.
(Formerly only contextual.)
c1205Lay. 3294 Me þunched þe alde mon wole dotie nou nan. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2404 My fader in elde dotes. c1440Promp. Parv. 128/1 Doton, or dote for age, deliro. 1530Palsgr. 525/2, I dote for age, as olde folkes do, je me radote. 1593Drayton Eclog. vi. 29 Thou dot'st in thy declining Age. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 301 The parson..is now old and doates. 1819Crabbe T. of Hall ii. Wks. 1834 VI. 39 We grow unfitted for that world and dote.
3. To be infatuatedly fond of; to bestow excessive love or fondness on or upon; to be foolishly in love. Const. + of (obs. rare), upon, on.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 129 Thyngis that a prynce ought to eschewe..the therde, dotyng of women. 1530Palsgr. 525/2 It is a gret madnesse to dote upon an other mans wyfe. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxx. (1612) 149 Not one but wexed amorous, yea euen Diana doted. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. iv. iv. 87 You doate on her, that cares not for your loue. 1623Massinger Dk. Milan iii. ii, A fine she-waiter..that doted Extremely of a gentleman. 1742Young Nt. Th. i. 277 How distant oft the thing we doat on most, From that for which we doat, Felicity! 1837Howitt Rur. Life iii. iv. (1862) 255 Where lies the mother on whom I doated, and who doated on me.
4. To decay, as a tree. Obs. exc. dial. Cf. doted 2, doting ppl. a. 3, dotard 2.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 752 The seed of thorn in hit wol dede and dote. 1893E. Coues Lewis & Clark's Exped. 951 note, In North Carolina..it is said of trees dead at the top, that they are doted, or have doted.
II. trans.
†5. To cause to dote; to drive crazy; to befool, infatuate. Obs.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. v. xxxiii. in Ashm. (1652) 156 Dotyng the Merchaunts that they be fayne To let them go. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 652/1 Vse no babbling to dote mens heades vpon. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 103 If my miserable speeches haue not alreadie doted you. a1611Beaum. & Fl. Maid's Trag. iii. ii, Why wilt thou dote thyself Out of thy life?
†6. To say or think foolishly. Obs.
1555Eden Decades 46 Hee openinge his mouthe..doateth that the Zemes spake to hym duryng the tyme of his traunce. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus iii. 2 Whatsoeuer the Manichees haue doated to the contrarie.
†7. To love to excess; to bestow extravagant affection on. Obs.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 73 b/2 Whan he was olde he so doobted and loued hem. 1673Rules of Civility 108 Endure a little hunger, and not dote and indulge their appetites as they do.
▪ IV. dote, v.2 Sc. Now rare.
Also 6 dot, doit.
[a. F. doter (13th c.), ad. L. dōtāre to endow, portion, f. dōt-em. See also dot v.2, in mod. use.]
†1. trans. To endow with riches, dignities, etc.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 188 And dot thame [Kirkmen] with far moir dignitie, Na euir tha had. 1549Compl. Scot. xvi. 141 Pepil that ar dotit vitht rason. 1620W. Scot Apol. Narr. (1846) 39 He was not so liberally doted with vnderstanding. 1623Cockeram, Doted, endowed.
2. To grant or give as an endowment.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 616 How King Malcolome foundit ane Kirk..and doittit to it mony Landis. 1636Scot. Canons in Laud's Wks. (1853) V. 602 Lands..doted to pious and holy uses. c1771in Spectator 4 June (1892) 781/2 A new cup..was presented, or ‘doted’ to the parish. 1864Tweedie Lakes, etc. of Bible 209 Abila was doted and confirmed to several members of the Herod family.
▪ V. dote
obs. form of dot. |