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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Doat \Doat\, v. i. See {Dote}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] 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.
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