King James Bible Dictionary

DOTE, verb intransitive

1. To be delirious; to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to be silly.

Time has made you dote and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell.

2. To be excessively in love; usually with on or upon; to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance.

What dust we dote on, when tis man we love.

Aholah dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. Ezekiel 23:5.

3. To decay.

DOTER, noun

1. One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.

2. One who is excessively fond, or weakly in love.