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doat
Word definitions for doat in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dote \Dote\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Doted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Doting .] [OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze, Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t?zen to keep still: cf. F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or senselessly), which are ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (obsolete spelling of dote English)
Usage examples of doat.
He doated upon detaining her by his side, or delighted to gratify her if she wished to be absent.
Master somewhiles doat, In dreamings on a docile universe Beneath an immarcessible Charlemagne.
I could with less pain endure the raging in my own natural unsatisfied appetites, even hunger or thirst, than I could submit to leave ungratified the most whimsical desires of a woman on whom I so extravagantly doated, that, though I knew she had been the mistress of half my acquaintance, I firmly intended to marry her.
Master somewhiles doat, In dreamings on a docile universe Beneath an immarcessible Charlemagne.
He placed himself at a corner of the door-way for her to pass him into the house, and doated on her cheek, her ear, and the softly dusky nape of her neck, where this way and that the little lighter-coloured irreclaimable curls running truant from the comb and the knot--curls, half-curls, root-curls, vine-ringlets, wedding-rings, fledgling feathers, tufts of down, blown wisps--waved or fell, waved over or up or involutedly, or strayed, loose and downward, in the form of small silken paws, hardly any of them much thicker than a crayon shading, cunninger than long round locks of gold to trick the heart.
Here flesh, there phantom, livelier after rout: The Seaman piping aye to the rightabout, Distracted Europe's Master, puffed remote Those Indies of the swift Macedonian, Whereon would Europe's Master somewhiles doat, In dreamings on a docile universe Beneath an immarcessible Charlemagne.