different between dotage vs dotary

English

Etymology

dote +? -age, from Middle English doten (“to dote”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?do?t?d?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d??t?d?/

Noun

dotage (countable and uncountable, plural dotages)

1. Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.
2. Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree.

   • Claudio. And ?he is exceeding wi?e.

     Prince. In euery thing, but in louing Benedicke. […] I would ?hee had be?towed this dotage on mee,

3. Foolish utterance(s); drivel.

Synonyms

• (loss of mental acuity associated with aging): second childhood

Translations

Anagrams

• dogate, goated, togaed

Middle English

Etymology

From doten +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??ta?d?(?)/

Noun

dotage (uncountable) (Late Middle English)

1. Behaviour that is stupid or ill-advised; ridiculousness or insanity:
   1. Ill-thought or fatuitous love or romantic feelings.
   2. Weakening of the mind due to age; dotage.
2. Disintegration, rotting, or collapsing.

Descendants

• English: dotage

References

• “d?t??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

English

Etymology

dote +? -ary?

Noun

dotary (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A dotard's weakness; dotage.
   • 1593, Michael Drayton, "The Shepheards Garland VII: The Seventh Eglog"[1]:

     These been for such as make them votarie,

     And take them to the mantle and the ring,

     And spenden day and night in dotarie,

     Hammering their heads, musing on heavenly thing,