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動詞

doat (三人称単数 現在形 doats, 現在分詞 doating, 過去形および過去分詞形 doated)

1. Obsolete spelling of dote
   • 1676, Aphra Behn, “The Town-Fop”, in The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III‎^[1]:

     Ye all doat upon him, but he's not the Man you take him for.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     I took any means to get access to you. O speak to me, Sophia! comfort my bleeding heart. Sure no one ever loved, ever doated like me.

   • 1786, Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in Spring”, in Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns‎^[2]:

     --And maun I still on Menie doat, And bear the scorn that's in her e'e?

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, OCLC 1708336, page 346:

     “Is not she looking well?” said he, turning his eyes towards Jane. “Better than she ever used to do?—You see how my father and Mrs. Weston doat upon her.”

   • 1825, William Hazlitt, “Mr. Coleridge”, in The Spirit of the Age […] , London: Printed for Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 813752051:

     We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements^[sic].