Crossword clues for dotard
dotard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seal \Seal\ (s[=e]l), n. [OE. sele, AS. seolh; akin to OHG. selah, Dan. s[ae]l, Sw. sj["a]l, Icel. selr.] (Zo["o]l.) Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocid[ae] and Otariid[ae].
Note: Seals inhabit seacoasts, and are found principally in the higher latitudes of both hemispheres. There are numerous species, bearing such popular names as sea lion, sea leopard, sea bear, or ursine seal, fur seal, and sea elephant. The bearded seal ( Erignathus barbatus), the hooded seal ( Cystophora cristata), and the ringed seal ( Phoca f[oe]tida), are northern species. See also Eared seal, Harp seal, Monk seal, and Fur seal, under Eared, Harp, Monk, and Fur. Seals are much hunted for their skins and fur, and also for their oil, which in some species is very abundant.
Harbor seal (Zo["o]l.), the common seal ( Phoca vitulina). It inhabits both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific Ocean, and often ascends rivers; -- called also marbled seal, native seal, river seal, bay seal, land seal, sea calf, sea cat, sea dog, dotard, ranger, selchie, tangfish.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"imbecile," late 14c., from dote + -ard.
Wiktionary
n. An old person with impaired intellect; one in his or her dotage.
WordNet
n. an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect
Usage examples of "dotard".
And I shall shortly be very pleased to accept the hospitality of the old dotard and his wife.
There is nothing in my house except fools and a dotard and two children.
At the last hamlet he made the mistake of speaking to an old man only to find the dotard was deaf as granite.
I will do, Narbonne--I tell you how I will vent my spite on this old fool of a Pope, and the dotards who may succeed him said Napoleon one day at the Tuileries.
Nothing will cure him, not even the useless prayers of the dotard, drooling priests of Mitra as they croon foolishly to their weak, indifferent deity.
But folk of wives make none assay, Till they be wedded, -- olde dotard shrew!
Duc de Marny, a feeble old man now, almost a dotard whose hitherto spotless blason, the young Vicomte, his son, was doing his best to besmirch.
The Marches sat and mused, or quarrelled fitfully about where they should spend the summer, like sparrows, he once said, till the electric lights began to show distinctly among the leaves, and they looked round and found the infants and dotards gone and the benches filled with lovers.
Whom when Pyrrochles saw, inflam'd with rage,That sire he foule bespake, Thou dotard vile,That with thy brutenesse shendst thy comely age,Abandone soone, I read, the caitiue spoileOf that same outcast carkasse, that erewhileMade it selfe famous through false trechery,And crownd his coward crest with knightly stile.
Even the workers currently re-building the city consist mainly of women, children, the dolts and dotards who were unfit to fight in the siege, brute peasants conscripted from the outlying lands.
But Your Majesty will have noticed that, though he professes to be now a Christian, the old dotard maundered much about his dead mate's still wandering the world—and why?