v. Obs. [f. BE- 3 + DOTE.] trans. To cause to dote, make silly, befool.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 1547. Ffor to be-dote this queen was here assent.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 145. Salomon … fonned and bidotid with his wijfis, made ydolis false goddis.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. clxxxiii. 1139. So bedoted that they could not come to the knowledge of their sinnes.
