DOTE, verb intransitive 1. To be delirious; to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to be silly. Time has made you dote and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell. 2. To be excessively in love; usually with on or upon; to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance. What dust we dote on, when tis man we love. Aholah dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. Ezekiel 23:5. 3. To decay.
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