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   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, 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. tzen 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, n. An imbecile; a dotard.  Halliwell.
   
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