In the manner of a dotard; showing the characteristics of senile weakness or excessive fondness.
Formed from 'dotard' with the adverbial/adjectival suffix '-ly', though this is a highly unusual and archaic formation in English.
This adverb barely exists in written English—most speakers would say 'like a dotard' instead—showing how not every theoretically possible word formation actually survives in real language use.
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