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doted, doated, ppl. a.|ˈdəʊtɪd|
Also 8 dotted, 9 dooted.
[f. dote v.1 + -ed1: cf. learned.]
†1. Stupid, foolish, in second childhood, dotard.
13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 196 What þe deuel hatz þou don, doted wrech? c1400Rom. Rose 4007 She was past al that passage And was a doted thing bicomen. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lxxxi. 242, I haue..meruayle that I se you so dotyd. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. ii. ii, All such as were crased, or any way doted. 1728P. Walker Life Peden (ed. 3) Pref. 25 In his dotted old Age.
†b. Infatuated, infatuatedly fond. Obs.
1550Cranmer Defence 115 b, The people beyng superstitiously enamored and doted vpon the Masse. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xlviii. 286 They continue doted in it.
2. Of a tree: Decayed inside, unsound. Now dial. and technical. (Cf. dotard 2.)
1466in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 93 White oke, not doted, nor storvyn. 1559Morwyng Evonym. 3 Woode whether it be rotten and doated, or sound. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 19 Found..in the hollow of these trees when doated and rotten. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Dooted, [said of] timber rendered unsound by fissures. 1883C. F. Smith in Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 47 Doted, ‘decayed inside,’ of a tree..quite common in..Southern States. 1893Westm. Gaz. 5 June 6/3 Doated..full of large knots, ugly shakes..this class of wood is sold in large quantities at the public auctions in the City. |