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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Doted \Dot"ed\, adjective
1. Stupid; foolish. [Obs.]
Senseless speech and doted ignorance. --Spenser.
2. Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [Local, U. S.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dote \Dote\, verb (used without an object) [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.
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