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DOT 
rather corrupted from jot, a point.] A fmall point or fpot 
made to mark any place in a writing. 
To DOT, v. a. To mark with fpecks. 
To DOT, v. n. To make dots or fpots. 
DO'TAGE, f. Lofs of underftanding; imbecility of 
mind; delirioufnefs: 
The foul in all hath one intelligence ; 
Though too much moifture in an infant’s brain. 
And too much drynefe in an old man’s fenfe, 
Cannot the prints of outward things retain: 
Then doth the foul want work, and idle fit; 
And this we childifhnefs and dotage call. Davies. 
Exceflive fondnefs; 
If on your head my fury does not turn. 
Thank that fond dotage which fo much you fcorn. Dryd. 
DQ'TAL, adj. [dotalis, Lat.] Relating to the portion 
of a woman; conftituting her portion; comprifed in her 
portion : 
Shall I, of one poor dotal town pofleft, 
My people thin, my wretched country wafte, 
An exil’d prince, and on a (baking throne, 
Or rilk my patron’s fubjedts, or my own. Garth. 
DO'TARD,yi A man whofe age has impaired his in¬ 
tellects; a man in his fecond childhood, called in fome 
provinces a tmchild: 
The fickly dotard wants a wife, 
To draw off his laft dregs of life. Prior. 
DOTA'TION, yi [ dotatio, Lat.] The adt of giving a 
dowry or portion. Endowment in general.—As to elee- 
mofynary corporations, by the dotation , the founder and 
his heirs are of common right the legal vifiters. Blackjlone. 
To DOTE, v. n. [doten , Dut. radoter , Fr.] To have 
the intellect impaired by age or paflion ; to be delirious. 
.—A fword is upon the liars, and they fhall dote: a fword 
is upon her mighty men, and they fhall be difmayed. 
Jer. 1 . 36. 
Time lias made you dote, and vainly tell 
Of arms imagin’d in your lonely cell: 
Go, be the temple and the gods your care ; 
Permit to men the thought of peace and war. Dryden. 
To be in love to extremity.—I have long loved her, and 
bellowed much on her, followed her with a doting ob- 
fcrvance. Shakefpeare. 
7 o dote upon. To regard with exceflive fondnefs; 
to love to excefs.—We dote upon this prefent world, and 
the enjoyment of it; and ’tis not without pain and fear, 
and reluCtancy, that we are torn from them, as if our 
hopes lay all within the compafs of this life-. Burnet. 
O death all eloquent! you only prove 
What duft we dote on, when ’tis man we love. Prior. 
DO'TE ASSIGNAN'DA, f. in law, a writ that lay 
fora widow, where it was found by office, that the king’s 
tenant was feifed of lands in fee, or fee-tail, at the day of 
his death, and that he held of the king in chief, See. In 
which cafe, the widow came into the chancery, and there 
made oath, that (lie would not marry without the king’s 
leave ; whereupon (he had this writ to the efeheator, to 
aflign her dower. But it was ufual to make the aflign- 
ment of the dower in the chancery, and to award a writ 
to the efeheator, to deliver the lands afligned unto her. 
Stat. 15 Edw. IV. c. 4. 
DOTE UNDE NIHIL HABET, in law, a writ of 
.dower, that lies for the widow againft the tenant who 
bought land of her lnifband in his life-time, whereof he 
•was folely feized in fee-(imple or fee-tail, and of which 
flie is dowable. See the article Dower. 
DO'TED, adj. Stupid. Notufed: 
His fenfelefs fpeech and doted ignorance 
The prince had marked well. Spenfer. 
DO'TER, f. One whofe underftanding is impaired by 
d o tr 
years; a dotard.—What fliould a bald fellow do with a 
comb, a dumb doter with a pipe, ora blind man with a 
looking-glafs. Burton. —A man fondly, weakly, and ex- 
ceflively, in love : 
If in black my lady’s brow be deckt, 
It mourns that painting and ufurping hair 
Should ravifli doters with a falfe alpeCl; 
And therefore is fhe born to make black fair. Shakefpeare. 
DOTES, f. pi. [Lat.] Natural endowments.—I niufe 
a miftrefs can be fo filent to the dotes of fuch a fervant. 
B. Jonfon. 
DO'THAN, [from the Hebrew, fignifying cuftom.] 
A town of Canaan, near Shechent, where Jofeph’s bre¬ 
thren confpired againft his life, Gen. xxxvii. 17 ; and where 
the prophet Elifha dwelt, when the king of Syria encom- 
pafted the city with intention to deftroy him, 2 Kings,\i.i3. 
DO'THAIM, the name of a place. Jud.iv.6. 
D O'TIN G LY, adv. Fondly; by exceflive fondnefs: 
That he, to wedlock dotingly betray’d, 
Should hope in this lewd town to find a maid! Dryden. 
DOT'MATYN, a town of Hungary : fix miles north- 
weft of Podolicz. 
DOT'TARD,y. This word feems to fignify a tree 
kept low by cutting.—For great trees, we fee almoft all 
overgrown trees in church-yards, or near ancient build¬ 
ings, and the like, are pollards and dottards, and not trees 
at their full height. Bacon. 
DOT'TEREL, /. The name of a fpecies of plover. 
See Charadrius, vol.iv. p. 106.—We fee how ready 
apes and monkeys are to imitate all motions of man ; and 
in catching of dotterels, we fee how the foolifh bird play- 
eth the ape in geftures. Bacon. 
DOUADIC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Indre : five miles north of La Blanc. 
DO'VAIN, a town of Savoy, in the Chablais, cele¬ 
brated for its vineyards: three miles eaft-fouth-eaft of 
Hermance. 
DOUAR'NENEZ, a fea-port town of France, in the 
department of Finifterre, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftridt of Pontcroix ; lituated on a large bay in the 
Englifli Channel: three leagues and a half north-weft of 
Quimper, and two and a quarter north-eaft of Pontcroix. 
DO'UAY, a city of France, and capital of the depart¬ 
ment of the North; large and ftrong, fituated on the 
Scarp, which is navigable for boats. It contains feven 
parilhes, and 2735 fires. It has long been celebrated for 
its Englifh colleges, whither the Roman catholics of this 
nation were generally lent for education. Douay was 
taken by the allies, under the command of the duke of 
Marlborough and prince Eugene, in 1710. The fiege lafted 
from the 5th of May to the 26th of June : the garrifon, 
which at the beginning confided of 8000 men, was re¬ 
duced to 4527 ; and the allies loft 8000 men. It was re¬ 
taken by the French in 1712: twenty-four pofts and three- 
quarters north of Paris. Lat. 50. 22. N. Ion. 20. 45. E. 
Ferro. 
DOU'AZIT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Landes: five miles fouth of St. Sever. 
DOU'BLE, adj. [double, Fr. duplex, Lat. duple, Erfe.] 
Two of a fort; one correfponding to the other ; in pairs. 
—All things are double one againft another, and he hath 
made nothing imperfedt. Ecclus. xlii. 24.—Twice as 
much; containing the fame quantity repeated. It is 
fometimes ufed with to, and fometimes without.—This 
fum of forty thoufand pounds is almoft double to what is 
fufficient. Szuift. 
Great honours are great burthens ; but on whom 
They are call with envy, he doth bear two loads: 
His cares muft (till be double to his joys, 
In any dignity. Ben Jonfon. 
Having one added to another ; having more than one in 
the fame order or parallel.—It is acuriofity alfo to make 
flowers double, which is effedted by often removing them 
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