dotage (dotaj)

[ This tree is olde anoon, and in his age He goothe oute of his kynde into dotage . Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 91. From Marl borough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driveller and a show. Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. 317. 2. Weak and foolish affection; exce ive fond IMG:content-3071.png:[blocks in formation] Sure, some dotage Of living stately, richly, lends a cunning To eloquence. Ford, Fancies, i. 3. [People] must, as they thought, heighten and improve it [religion] till they had mixed with it the freaks of Enthusiasm, or the dotages of Superstition. Stilling fleet , Sermons, II. viii.