DOTE
- Definiția din dicționar
Traducere: română
Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.
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]
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&unr_;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]
Dote, n. An imbecile; a dotard. Halliwell.
[1913 Webster]
