dotary

noun

dotary

noun

Etymology From dote + -ary?

1

Obsolete A dotard's weakness; dotage.

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,1593, Michael Drayton, The Shepheards Garland VII: The Seventh Eglog:

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