doted, doated, ppl. a.
(ˈdəʊtɪd)
Also 8 dotted, 9 dooted.
[f. dote v.1 + -ed1: cf. learned.]
† 1. Stupid, foolish, in second childhood, dotard.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C. 196 What þe deuel hatz þou don, doted wrech? c 1400 Rom. Rose 4007 She was past al that passage And was a doted thing bicomen. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon lxxxi. 242, I haue..meruayle that I se you so dotyd. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. ii. ii, All such as were crased, or any way doted. 1728 P. Walker Life Peden (ed. 3) Pref. 25 In his dotted old Age. |
† b. Infatuated, infatuatedly fond. Obs.
| 1550 Cranmer Defence 115 b, The people beyng superstitiously enamored and doted vpon the Masse. 1583 Golding Calvin on Deut. xlviii. 286 They continue doted in it. |
2. Of a tree: Decayed inside, unsound. Now dial. and technical. (Cf. dotard 2.)
| 1466 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 93 White oke, not doted, nor storvyn. 1559 Morwyng Evonym. 3 Woode whether it be rotten and doated, or sound. 1787 Best Angling (ed. 2) 19 Found..in the hollow of these trees when doated and rotten. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Dooted, [said of] timber rendered unsound by fissures. 1883 C. F. Smith in Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 47 Doted, ‘decayed inside,’ of a tree..quite common in..Southern States. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 5 June 6/3 Doated..full of large knots, ugly shakes..this class of wood is sold in large quantities at the public auctions in the City. |