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Definition of Doated
1. doat [v] - See also: doat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doated
Literary usage of Doated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1906)
"... clothes, and equipage, of this number, and I look upon them as no less in the
wrong than when they were five years old, and doated on shells, pebbles, ..."
2. The History of the Portuguese, During the Reign of Emmanuel: Containing All by Jerónimo Osório (1752)
"If you have then any natural * affection, if you have any regard for her who
gave * you birth, and ever doated on you with the ..."
3. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1880)
"Who, now transformed into this drooping flower, Hangs the repentant head, back
from the How are thy painted beauties doated on, By light, and empty idiots 1 ..."
4. American Observer Medical Monthly (1871)
"... a lancet and doated on a blue pill. The pellets and powders of Homeopathy were
an abomination in his eyes. The mixed medicines of the Eclectic school ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"doated [doa-tid] adj. Rotten. Generally applied to wood. ... (See doated.~)
DOLE [doa-1] (i) sb. A set parcel, or distribution; an alms; a bale or bundle of ..."
6. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw (1888)
"doated [doa-tid] adj. Rotten. Generally applied to wood. ... doated.} DOLE [doa-1] (1)
sb. A set parcel, or distribution; an alms; a bale or bundle of nets. ..."
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