dotary

English

Etymology

From dote +‎ -ary?

Noun

dotary (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A dotard's weakness; dotage.
   • 1593, Michael Drayton, The Shepheards Garland VII: The Seventh Eglog‎^[1]:

     These been for such as make them votarie,
     And take them to the mantle and the ring,
     And spenden day and night in dotarie,
     Hammering their heads, musing on heavenly thing,

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dotary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)