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.

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.

To decay.