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Definitions
an oldster in their dotage; someone whose age has impaired their intellect
Word origin
From Middle English dotard; equivalent to dote + -ard.
Used in a sentence
“I ſpeake not like a dotard, nor a foole, As vnder priuiledge of age to bragge, What I haue done being yong, or what would doe, Were I not old, […]”
“Lawns, houses, chattels, groves, and fields, All that the fertile valley shields; Wages of folly--baits of crime, Of life's uneasy game the stake, Playthings that keep the eyes awake Of drowsy, dotard Time;—”
“He early determined to marry and wive, For better or worse With his elderly nurse, Which the poor little boy didn't live to contrive: His health didn't thrive— No longer alive, He died an enfeebled old dotard at five!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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