Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dote \Dote\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Doted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Doting}.] [OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze,
   Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t?zen to keep still: cf.
   F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or
   senselessly), which are from the same source.] [Written also
   {doat}.]
   1. To act foolishly. [Obs.]

            He wol make him doten anon right.     --Chaucer.

   2. To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the
      intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind
      wanders or wavers; to drivel.

            Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms
            imagined in your lonely cell.         --Dryden.

            He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated,
            and doted long before he died.        --South.

   3. To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to
      be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother
      dotes on her child.

            Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. --Shak.

            What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. --
                                                  Pope.

Doting \Dot"ing\, a.
   That dotes; silly; excessively fond. -- {Dot"ing*ly}, adv. --
   {Dot"ing*ness}, n.

Source : WordNet®

doting
     adj : extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring
           grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting
           husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a
           fond mother" [syn: {adoring}, {fond}]