Dose , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dosed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
dosing.]
[Cf. F. doser. See Dose, n.] 1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
2.
To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to
give potions to, constantly and without need.
A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, "secundum
artem."
South
3. To give anything nauseous to.
Dose (dōs),
n. [F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose, fr. dido`nai to give; akin
to L. dare to give. See Date point of time.]
1.
The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one
to receive.
3. Anything nauseous that one is obliged to
take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.
I am for curing
the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses.
W. Irving. I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you
give him, he
shall readily take it down.
South.
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