Dotary

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A dotard's weakness; dotage. obsolete, uncountable

    "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,"

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"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,"

Etymology

From dote + -ary?

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