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   Dote , n. [See Dot dowry.]
   A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.
   Wyatt.
   
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   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.]
   To act foolishly. [Obs.]
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   He wol make him doten anon right.
   Chaucer.
   
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   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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   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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