*dote*

n. [ F. anecdote, fr. Gr. &unr_; not published; 'an priv. + &unr_; given out, &unr_; to give out, to publish; &unr_; out + &unr_; to give. See Dose, n. ] 1. pl. Unpublished narratives. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. antidotum, Gr. 'anti`doton (sc. fa`rmakon), fr. 'anti`dotos given against; 'anti` against + dido`nai to give: cf. F. antidote. See Dose, n. ] 1. A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fortify or preserve by an antidote. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to dote; to deceive. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Craspedota. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An imbecile; a dotard. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Dot dowry. ] 1. A marriage portion. [ Obs. ] See 1st Dot, n. Wyatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Natural endowments. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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&unr_;zen to keep still: cf. F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or senselessly), which are from the same source. ] [ Written also doat. ] 1. To act foolishly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He wol make him doten anon right. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time has made you dote, and vainly tell
Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Stupid; foolish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Senseless speech and doted ignorance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dotard. [ R. ] Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One excessively fond, or weak in love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; to give besides; &unr_; over + &unr_; to give: cf. F. épidote. So named from the enlargement of the base of the primary, in some of the secondary forms. ] (Min.) A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Epidote group includes ordinary epidote, zoisite or lime epidote, piedmontite or manganese epidote, allanite or cerium epidote. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. lepidwto`s covered with scales, fr. lepi`s -i`dos, a scale. ] (Bot.) Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Pseudo-, and Tetramerous. ] (Zool.) A division of beetles having the fifth tarsal joint minute and obscure, so that there appear to be but four joints. -- Pseu`do*te*tram"er*al a. [1913 Webster]