Dote
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
signifies "to be ill, to be ailing," whether in body or mind; hence, "to be taken with such a morbid interest in a thing as is tantamount to a disease, to dote," 1—Timothy 6:4 (marg., "sick"). The primary meaning of "dote" is to be foolish (cp. Jeremiah 50:36 , the evident meaning of noseo, in this respect, is "to be unsound."
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.
(2): ( n.) An imbecile; a dotard.
(3): ( v. i.) To act foolishly.
(4): ( n.) Natural endowments.
(5): ( v. i.) To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
(6): ( v. i.) To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; - with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.
King James Dictionary [3]
DOTE,
1. To be delirious to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers to be silly.
Time has made you dote, and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
2. To be excessively in love usually with on or upon to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance.
What dust we dote on, when tis man we love.
Aholah dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. Ezekiel 23 .
3. To decay.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
dōt : "To dote" means either "to be weakminded" or "to be foolishly fond." In the latter sense it is employed in Ezekiel 23:5; in the former, in Jeremiah 50:36 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "shall become fools"); the King James Version Sirach 25:2 (the Revised Version (British and American) "lacking understanding"), and the King James Version 1 Timothy 6:4 (the Revised Version, margin "to be sick"; the King James Version margin"a fool").
