dotard

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'The dotard, the imbecile!

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  1. noun A person who is in his or her dotage.

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  • 'The dotard, the imbecile! —  The Flaw in the Sapphire
  • She denounced her erstwhile beloved master as a blind old dotard, and the idolized Umč, she declared a weak and yielding idiot. —  The Dragon Painter
  • "Lady Laura Kennedy is living with her father," said Phineas Pshaw;--dotard Lady Laura Kennedy is living with her father," repeated Phineas; "and I am going to the house of the Earl of Brentford Who was it wrote and asked you The letter was from Lady Laura Yes;--from my wife. —  Phineas Redux
  • Go preach to the coward, thou death-telling seer Or, if gory Culloden so dreadful appear Draw, dotard, around thy old wavering sight This mantle, to cover the phantoms of fright Seer. —  McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
  • Wit is a creeping dotard, and Happiness he is in poor health an' can barely drag himself to me table, an' Hope is a tippler, an' Right Hand is getting the palsy. —  Darrel of the Blessed Isles
 

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  1. Middle English, from doten, to dote.

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  1. Also dial. (in 3d sense) dottard; from Middle English dotard; from dote+ -ard.
 

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/ˈdoʊtərd/
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