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dote 音標拼音: [d'ot] vi. 溺愛;昏聵,智力衰退 溺愛;昏聵,智力衰退 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 \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 \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] Dote \Dote\, n. An imbecile; a dotard. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster] 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 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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