dotard

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DOTARD, noun [dote and ard, kind.] 1. A man whose intellect is impaired by age; one in his second childhood. The sickly dotard wants a wife. 2. A doting fellow; one foolishly fond.
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