† bedotev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To cause to dote, make silly, befool.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > make foolish or a fool of [verb (transitive)]
bedotec1385
fona1425
fool1608
to put the ass (also fool) upon (also on)1617
stultify1809
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1547 Ffor to be-dote this queen was here assent.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 145 Salomon..fonned and bidotid with hise wijfis, made ydolis false Goddis.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxxxiii. 1139 So bedoted that they could not come to the knowledge of their sinnes.
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