dote

6 definitions found

dote - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dote \Dote\, n. [See Dot dowry.]
     1. A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n. --Wyatt.
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     2. pl. Natural endowments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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  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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  Dote \Dote\, n.
     An imbecile; a dotard. --Halliwell.
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dote - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dote
      v 1: be foolish or senile due to old age
      2: shower with love; show excessive affection for; "Grandmother
         dotes on her the twins"

dote - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  DOTE, Span. law. The property which the wife gives to the husband on account 
  of marriage. 
       2. It is divided into adventitia and profectitia; the former is the 
  dote which the father or grandfather, or other of the ascendants in the 
  direct paternal line, give of their own property to the husband; the latter 
  (adventitia) is that property which the wife gives to the husband, or that 
  which is given to him for her by her mother, or her collateral relations, or 
  a stranger. Aso & Man. Inst. B. 1, t. 7, c . 1, Sec. i. 
  
  

dote - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "dote":
     adore, babble, be fond of, be insane, be stupid, blather, blither,
     burble, coddle, dither, drivel, drool, enjoy, fancy, have a demon,
     hold dear, idolize, indulge, like, love, make much of, maunder,
     pamper, rage, ramble, rant, rave, run amok, run mad, slaver,
     slobber, spoil, wander, worship