(v. i.) To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
(v. i.) To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.
(n.) An imbecile; a dotard.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stigma of having no brothers or sisters meant that any acting up was immediately dismissed with a caustic, “Well, he is an only child.” The subtext was that my parents had doted on me excessively, inflating my sense of importance.
(2) Batty told the ABC in July that when he died Anderson doted on Luke and seemed to be a caring father.
(3) Oh, my God.” Rad is doing the rounds as a doting interviewee following his re-promotion to chief executive in August this year.
(4) Five nurses were trained to use the DOTES to rate the absence or presence and intensity of specific medication side effects.
(5) The Dosage Record Treatment Emergent Symptom Scale (DOTES) is a rating scale for measuring the presence and intensity of psychotropic medication side effects.
(6) Richard Vardon, representing Nevin at the appeal hearing, said the doting mother had been put in a terrible position by her housemate – and had been devastated to find herself separated from her children and in jail.
(7) Anyone who dotes on football warms to Arsenal, but you can celebrate the stylishness without assuming they are an irresistible force.
(8) The purposes of this pilot study are to (1) develop a protocol for training raters to use the DOTES, (2) assess inter-rater agreement, 3) examine the reasons for disagreement among raters to clarify training procedures and symptom definitions, and (4) further refine this instrument for use in clinical and research settings.
(9) In asserting that Chinese kids perform conspicuously well in school (that’s enough to make people nervous) Phillips is offering a think positive alternative to negative generalisations about black-on-black street violence or the propensity of a few teenagers from Pakistani homes to head for jihad instead of medical school as their doting parents planned.
(10) They aren't alone in this – it's one of the most basic human instincts, and for too long we have been telling men and boys that the only way they can be useful is by bringing home money to a doting wife and kids, or possibly by dying in a war.
(11) In Britain, where a handful of country's most iconic figures are held in high regard and the music press dotes on artists who straddle the country and indie-rock boundaries, the polish and sheen of the Nashville mainstream has never really translated.
(12) I've read Ronald Reagan's diaries and observed how much he doted on Nancy; and Laura Bush's memoirs, in which there's no doubt that her marriage to Dubya is a strong and happy one; as, surely, is Barack and Michelle's.
(13) This is hardly surprising: because it is harder for same-sex couples to have children, there is a positive selection for what are more likely to be doting parents.
(14) To determine the safety of the medication, a modified Dotes Secondary Effects Scale was used.
(15) Denmark's new leader is married to Stephen Kinnock; Neil and Glenys are doting grandparents to the couple's children, Johanna, 14, and Camilla, 11.
(16) While Hitler doted on his cultural fantasies, paintings were vanishing into fruit cellars and attics.
(17) Mrs Bennet has the ballast – the younger daughters and her own sheer energy for filling the air with noise – while Mr Bennet has the precision missiles: his sarcasm and the challenging aspect of Elizabeth, his dote.
(18) Being a parent, I figured a spot of controlled crying might help, and immediately vowed to write a column containing a section in which I dote and coo over babies in a manner calculated to make these people scream with revulsion, only to discover they're unable to do so on the page itself.
(19) Haryssa's godmother had doted on her, according to a neighbour, Bellefleur Jean Heber.
(20) Documentation was effected via the following examination instruments described and recommended by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), USA; CGI, BPRS, Dotes, APDI and PTR.
Mote
Definition:
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(pres. subj.) of Mot
(v.) See 1st Mot.
(n.) A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.
(n.) A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.
(n.) A place of meeting for discussion.
(n.) The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort.
(n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck.
Example Sentences:
(1) These suggest that this response is associated to a delayed type hypersensitivity of Jones-Mote type.
(2) The reaction appeared to be based on tuberculin type and Jones-Mote type of reactions.
(3) The Jones-Mote type of DTH, even modified by cyclophosphamide pretreatment, produced a significant local inflammatory reaction which was unable to destroy tumor cells.
(4) I once saw a merlin above Burgh Castle spiral in a relentless tight corkscrew as it pursued a skylark that steepled until it was only a dust mote.
(5) Thus, basophils occurred in human tuberculin and Jones-Mote reactions and were not a distinguishing feature of Jones-Mote reactions.
(6) Similar treatment protocols, however, did not enhance Jones-Mote (cutaneous basophil) hypersensitivity to OVA or contact sensitivity reactions to dinitrofluorobenzene.
(7) Thus, hapten-specific cutaneous basophil reactions were present in guinea pigs immunized with CFA for classical delayed hypersensitivity, and in animals immunized with IFA for Jones-Mote reactions.
(8) M. leprae antigens normally elicit this Jones-Mote type of DH.
(9) These results therefore demonstrate that whereas the Jones-Mote reaction is correlated with disease exacerbation, the tuberculin-type of DTH may be protective.
(10) In this instance of this month's extreme melting, Mote said there was evidence of a heat dome over Greenland: or an unusually strong ridge of warm air.
(11) The different behaviour of the two coffee varieties may be due to mote or less strong binding of this high-polymer carbohydrate to the cell wall.
(12) 42 min: Cha Bum-Kun presses OVER-AMBITIOUS BUT DECENT WILD SKELP on his Cha Du-Ri-mote Control.
(13) We induced sensitization for Jones-Mote reactions in 20 normal humans by intradermal injections of keyhole limpet hemocyanin.
(14) Delayed hypersensitivity reactions include tuberculin type, Jones Mote type reactions and contact sensitivity.
(15) The cutaneous basophilic hypersensitivity (Jones-Mote) is a T-cell mediated immune reaction, detectable even before the classic delayed reaction after sensitization with tiny up to large doses of proteines.
(16) Intracutaneous tests revealed some positive reactions to each thiol compound; there was a tendency to produce a tuberculin type reaction with indurated erythema rather than the Jones-Mote type seen in CET-induced reactions.
(17) In contrast to the normal individuals, who showed Jones-Mote type of hypersensitivity, no lepromatous patient could mount any 'delayed-in-time' cutaneous hypersensivivity reaction against an intradermal challenge of monomeric flagellin.
(18) Jones-Mote reactions are delayed, erythematous, and mildly indurated cutaneous reactions originally described in humans sensitized by skin injection of heterologous proteins.
(19) These experiments suggest that Jones-Mote type DTH responsiveness to SRBC remains dependent on the presence of the initially reactive lymphoid organ, provided the dose of antigen is too low to evoke the generation of DTH-reactive cells in other lymphoid organs.
(20) Skin test antigen requirements indicate that the Jones-Mote reaction involves an active stimulatory response rather than combination with preformed antibody, since ABA conjugates of nonimmunogenic D-polymers do not work.