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doat

(dəʊt)
vb
(intr) a variant (now rare) spelling of dote
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doat


Past participle: doated
Gerund: doating

Imperative
doat
doat
Present
I doat
you doat
he/she/it doats
we doat
you doat
they doat
Preterite
I doated
you doated
he/she/it doated
we doated
you doated
they doated
Present Continuous
I am doating
you are doating
he/she/it is doating
we are doating
you are doating
they are doating
Present Perfect
I have doated
you have doated
he/she/it has doated
we have doated
you have doated
they have doated
Past Continuous
I was doating
you were doating
he/she/it was doating
we were doating
you were doating
they were doating
Past Perfect
I had doated
you had doated
he/she/it had doated
we had doated
you had doated
they had doated
Future
I will doat
you will doat
he/she/it will doat
we will doat
you will doat
they will doat
Future Perfect
I will have doated
you will have doated
he/she/it will have doated
we will have doated
you will have doated
they will have doated
Future Continuous
I will be doating
you will be doating
he/she/it will be doating
we will be doating
you will be doating
they will be doating
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been doating
you have been doating
he/she/it has been doating
we have been doating
you have been doating
they have been doating
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been doating
you will have been doating
he/she/it will have been doating
we will have been doating
you will have been doating
they will have been doating
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been doating
you had been doating
he/she/it had been doating
we had been doating
you had been doating
they had been doating
Conditional
I would doat
you would doat
he/she/it would doat
we would doat
you would doat
they would doat
Past Conditional
I would have doated
you would have doated
he/she/it would have doated
we would have doated
you would have doated
they would have doated
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No, my Sophia, if cruel fortune separates us for ever, my soul shall doat on thee alone.
"When Fanny is known to him," continued Henry, "he will doat on her.
I never saw such fine children in my life.--I declare I quite doat upon them already, and indeed I am always distractedly fond of children."
"Yes, I doat on Miss Georgiana!" cried the fervent Abbot.
I am amazingly attached to Ned--quite doat upon him, indeed--and even if we could afford to throw ourselves away, that very objection would be quite insuperable.--I wish you'd take some wine?'
I was tired of that sort of vegetation in which I neither grew, nor was watered by tears; nor could I see those stars on which I so much doated, and from which I had learned a wisdom so profound.
One of his drunken exclamations was, "And the jade doats on your youth, you raw blockhead!
Paul's cheery soprano, lifted in a hymn, doated through the trees, accompanied by the whirr of an egg-beater.
'He doats on it, your worship,' replied Bumble; giving Oliver a sly pinch, to intimate that he had better not say he didn't.
I talked yesterday with a pair of philosophers; I endeavored to show my good men that I love everything by turns and nothing long; that I loved the centre, but doated on the superficies; that I loved man, if men seemed to me mice and rats; that I revered saints, but woke up glad that the old pagan world stood its ground and died hard; that I was glad of men of every gift and nobility, but would not live in their arms.
For the statements made to Friar Ferrer, see Paris, Bibliotheque nationale, Collection Doat 23, fols 1-49b; for the Lauragais deposition, see Toulouse BM MS 609, fols 201b-03 b.