Hypertext Webster Gateway: "doting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Doting \Dot"ing\, a.
That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- {Dot"ing*ly}, adv. --
{Dot"ing*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
doting
adj : extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring
grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting
husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a
fond mother" [syn: {adoring}, {fond}]
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