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Definition of Doted
1. a. Stupid; foolish.
Definition of Doted
1. Verb. (past of dote) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doted
1. dote [v] - See also: dote
Medical Definition of Doted
1. 1. Stupid; foolish. "Senseless speech and doted ignorance." (Spenser) 2. Half-rotten; as, doted wood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doted
Literary usage of Doted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (1903)
"12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most
gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horse«, all of them de- 13 Then I saw that ..."
2. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1900)
"... and doted on one of the ladies of the lake, and how he was shut in a rock
under a stone and there died. So after these quests of Sir Gawaine, Sir Tor, ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... a patient of his, by this stratagem alone, that doted upon a poor servant his
maid, when his friends, children, no persuasion could serve to alienate ..."
4. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"Felix Plater, in the first book of his observations, boasts how he cured a widower
in Basil, a patient of his, by this stratagem alone, that1 doted upon a ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1851)
""THOSE monstrous lies of little Robin Rush ; Tom Chipperfield, and pretty lisping
Ned, That doted on a maid of gingerbread. The flying pilcher, and the ..."
6. The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopædia: Comprehending Practical by Luke Hebert (1848)
"... the air in doted vessels, and very generally employed to illustrate the
properties of air, and to explain the various phenomena connected with the ..."
7. The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Commons (1779)
"Copy of a Letter from the Marl of Dartmouth to the Honour aklt Major General
Howe, doted ... doted ..."
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