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▪ I. ˈdoting, doating, vbl. n.
[f. dote v.1+ -ing1.]
The action of the verb dote.
1. Action characteristic of a weak or enfeebled intellect; imbecility, stupidity; an instance of this.
c1440Promp. Parv. 128/1 Dotynge, desipiencia. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Acts 85 b, Dotyng is..whan a man, through erroure of his mynde, swerueth from reason. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 51/2 An altercation and warre betweene the king of England and Lewes of France, through the doting of both parts. 1690Dryden Don Sebast. Pref., I am not yet arrived to the age of doting. 1833R. H. Froude Rem. (1838) 317 Can these [verses] be doctored into any thing available, or are they dotings?
2. The bestowal of foolish affection (upon); fond attachment.
1622Donne Serm. xvi. 161 Such is our passionate Doting upon this World. 1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. 53 Dogmatizing, and fond doating upon Authorities.
Hence doting-piece, one who is doted on.
1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xxxii. 329 My sister B― is my doating-piece. 1830Godwin Cloudesley I. vi. 109 He was his father's doating-piece.
▪ II. ˈdoting, doating, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That dotes.
1. Weak-minded, foolish, stupid, imbecile.
1489Caxton Faytes of A. iv. x. 257 Folysh moeuynges and dotyng opynyons. 1535Coverdale Eccl. vii. 25 The erroure of dotinge fooles. 1645Milton Colast. (1851) 366 Ignorant and doting surmises. 1797Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 297 The last resource of female weakness, of helpless infancy, of doting decrepitude. 1870Max Müller Sc. Relig. (1873) 273 With silly children, and doting grandmothers.
2. Foolishly or extravagantly fond.
1577St. Aug. Manual (Longm.) 1 Loving and yet not dotyng. 1663Killigrew Parson's Wed. in Dodsley O. Pl. (1780) XI. 497 They are still the most doting'st husbands. 1752Young Brothers i. i. Wks. 1757 II. 210 No picture, by the doating eye To be survey'd. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh ii. 221 You give us doating mothers.
3. Of trees: Decaying from age.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. 32 The old wood, found commonly in doating Birches. 1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Doting-Tree..a Tree almost worn out with age. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. xi. 109 An old doting oak.
Hence ˈdotingly adv., in a doting manner or degree: infatuatedly; fondly.
1548Cranmer Catech. 123 b, Thei dotyngly loued all that was their awne. 1608T. Morton Pream. Encounter 128 So dotingly vaine in ostentation of his owne wit. 1684tr. Agrippa's Van. Arts lvii. 165 None more superstitious and dotingly stupid. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 85 The duke..became dotingly fond of his wife. |