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Found 6 hits - Term: dote, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dote \dote\, n. see dot dowry.
   1. a marriage portion. obs. see 1st dot, n. --wyatt.
      1913 webster

   2. pl. natural endowments. obs. --b. jonson.
      1913 webster
see also:
dot 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      1913 webster

            he wol make him doten anon right.     --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            time has made you dote, and vainly tell
            of arms imagined in your lonely cell. --dryden.
      1913 webster

            he survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated,
            and doted long before he died.        --south.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            sing, siren, for thyself, and i will dote. --shak.
      1913 webster

            what dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. --
                                                  pope.
      1913 webster
see also:
doted doting doat 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dote \dote\, n.
   an imbecile; a dotard. --halliwell.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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"

[5] : 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




[6] : 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. 




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