2. pl. Natural endowments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
He wol make him doten anon right. --Chaucer.
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.
Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms
imagined in your lonely cell. --Dryden.
He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated,
and doted long before he died. --South.
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.
Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. --Shak.
What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. --
Pope.