Dote
Bible Usage:
- Bible Reference: Jeremiah 50:36
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2973 Used 1 time
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Dote
DOTE, verb intransitive
1. To be delirious; to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to be silly.
Time has made you dote and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
2. To be excessively in love; usually with on or upon; to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance.
What dust we dote on, when tis man we love.
Aholah dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. Ezekiel 23:5.
3. To decay.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Doter
DOTER, noun
1. One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.
2. One who is excessively fond, or weakly in love.