The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
dotages
plural of dotage
• dogates, goadest
Source: Wiktionary
Do"tage, n. Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.