Dotage
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Dotage is that feebleness of the mental faculties which proceeds from old age, Itisadiminution or decay of that intellectual power which was once possessed. It is the slow approach of death; of that irrevocable cessation, without hurt or disease, of all the funetions which once belonged to the living animal. The external functions gradually cease; the senses waste away by degrees; and the mind is impereeptibly visited by decay.
1 Bland, 389.