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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_77297" /> ==
== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_77297" /> ==
<div> '''1: νοσέω ''' (Strong'S #3552 — Verb — noseo — nos-eh'-o ) </div> <p> 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," &nbsp;1 Timothy 6:4 (marg., "sick"). The primary meaning of "dote" is to be foolish (cp. &nbsp; Jeremiah 50:36 , the evident meaning of noseo, in this respect, is "to be unsound." </p>
<div> '''1: '''''Νοσέω''''' ''' (Strong'S #3552 Verb noseo nos-eh'-o ) </div> <p> 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," &nbsp;1—Timothy 6:4 (marg., "sick"). The primary meaning of "dote" is to be foolish (cp. &nbsp; Jeremiah 50:36 , the evident meaning of noseo, in this respect, is "to be unsound." </p>
          
          
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_113170" /> ==
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_113170" /> ==
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) An imbecile; a dotard. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To act foolishly. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) Natural endowments. </p> <p> '''(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. </p> <p> '''(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. </p>
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) An imbecile; a dotard. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To act foolishly. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) Natural endowments. </p> <p> '''(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. </p> <p> '''(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. </p>
          
          
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_59577" /> ==
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_59577" /> ==
<p> [[Dote,]] </p> 1. To be delirious to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers to be silly. <p> Time has made you dote, and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell. </p> 2. To be excessively in love usually with on or upon to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance. <p> What dust we dote on, when tis man we love. </p> <p> [[Aholah]] dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. &nbsp;Ezekiel 23 . </p> 3. To decay.
<p> DOTE, </p> 1. To be delirious to have the intellect impaired by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers to be silly. <p> Time has made you dote, and vainly tell of arms imagined in your lonely cell. </p> 2. To be excessively in love usually with on or upon to dote on, is to love to excess or extravagance. <p> What dust we dote on, when tis man we love. </p> <p> [[Aholah]] dotes on her lovers, the Assyrians. &nbsp;Ezekiel 23 . </p> 3. To decay.
          
          
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_3143" /> ==
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_3143" /> ==
<p> '''''dōt''''' : "To dote" means either "to be weakminded" or "to be foolishly fond." In the latter sense it is employed in &nbsp;Ezekiel 23:5; in the former, in &nbsp;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 &nbsp; 1 Timothy 6:4 (the Revised Version, margin "to be sick"; the King James Version margin"a fool"). </p>
<p> ''''' dōt ''''' : "To dote" means either "to be weakminded" or "to be foolishly fond." In the latter sense it is employed in &nbsp;Ezekiel 23:5; in the former, in &nbsp;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 &nbsp; 1 Timothy 6:4 (the Revised Version, margin "to be sick"; the King James Version margin"a fool"). </p>
          
          
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