doat

English

Verb

doat (third-person singular simple present doats, present participle doating, simple past and past participle doated)

1. Obsolete spelling of dote.
   • 1676, Aphra Behn, “The Town-Fop”, in The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III^[1]:

     Ye all doat upon him, but he's not the Man you take him for.

   • 1786, Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in Spring”, in Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns^[2]:

     --And maun I still on Menie doat, And bear the scorn that's in her e'e?

   • 1825, William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age^[3]:

     We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements.

Anagrams

• DotA
• toad