\Do"tage\, n. [From {Dote}, v. i.]
1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind,
   particularly in old age; the childishness of old age;
   senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
         Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and
         the dotage of Greek literature.       --Macaulay.
2. Foolish utterance; drivel.
         The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. --
                                               Milton.
3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
         The dotage of the nation on presbytery. -- Bp.
                                               Burnet.