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Definition of Dotages
1. dotage [n] - See also: dotage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dotages
Literary usage of Dotages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a by John Brand (1905)
"... preach very frequently against diviners, sorcerers, auguries, omens, charms,
incantations, and all the filth of the wicked and dotages of the Gentiles. ..."
2. Essays and Marginalia by Hartley Coleridge (1851)
"I applaud the annotator for taking the part of the children of Ben's old age,
the more because those dotages were rather favourites of STC As to the ..."
3. The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs by Arthur Thomas Malkin (1834)
"Two comedies without a date, " The Magnetic Lady," and " The Tale of a Tub,"
belong to these latter compositions, which Dryden has called his dotages; ..."
4. Ecclesia Restaurata: Or, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Peter Heylyn, Ecclesiastical History Society (1849)
"And as Montanus could not go abroad without his Maximilla and Priscilla to disperse
his dotages, so these impostors also had their female followers, ..."
5. The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: Printed from by Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, George Colman, Peter Whalley (1811)
"Of these, the Tale of a Tub was probably his last performance, and is undoubtedly
one of those later compositions which Dryden hath called his dotages ; but ..."
6. The Works of the Rev. John Howe by John Howe, Edmund Calamy (1838)
"... there was nobody to make opposition to the Mahometan dotages and ... tells us,)
to make any opposition, or write any thing against the dotages of ..."
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