1. dote - Noun
2. dote - Verb
A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.
Natural endowments.
To act foolishly.
To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
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.
An imbecile; a dotard.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare
Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew. Robertson Davies
Beautee eneuch to mak a world to dote. James I of Scotland
We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know. Robert E. Howard
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange. William Shakespeare
All women dote upon an idle man Although their children need a rich estate. No man has ever lived that had enough Of children's gratitude or woman's love. William Butler Yeats