Dose (?), n. [F. dose, Gr. a giving, a dose, fr. 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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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.
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