Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dotard.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A dotard.

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  • noun obsolete A dotard.

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Examples

  • Can you, when you have pushed out your gates the very defender of them, and, in a violent popular ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to front his revenges with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as you seem to be?

    The Tragedy of Coriolanus 2004

  • Can you, when you have pushed out your gates the very defender of them, and, in a violent popular ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to front his revenges with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as you seem to be?

    Act V. Scene II. Coriolanus 1914

  • Can you, when you have pushed out your gates the very defender of them, and, in a violent popular ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to front his revenges with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as you seem to be?

    Coriolanus 1607

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  • "Can you, when you have pushed out your gates the very defender of them, and in a violent popular ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to front his revenges with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as you seem to be?"

    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.

    August 29, 2009