Word Meanings - DOTARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood. The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior.

IDIOTISH
Like an idiot; foolish.
IDIOTRY
Idiocy. Bp. Warburton.
IDIOT
1. A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office. St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons. Jer. Taylor. 2. An unlearned, ignorant, or simple
IDIOTICON
A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.
BABBLER
A name given to any one of family of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. (more info) 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange. 2. A hound too noisy on
IDIOTIZE
To become stupid.
IDIOTHERMIC
Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.
BABBLERY
Babble. Sir T. More
DOTARD
One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood. The sickly dotard wants a wife. Prior.
IDIOTCY
Idiocy.
IDIOTIC; IDIOTICAL
1. Common; simple. Blackwall. 2. Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.
IDIOTISM
of a private person, the common or vulgar manner of speaking, Gr. 1. An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language. Scholars sometimes give terminations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words
IDIOTICALLY
In a idiotic manner.
IDIOTED
Rendered idiotic; befooled. Tennyson.
DOTARDLY
Foolish; weak. Dr. H. More.