dose Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
dosage.
noun the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
dosage.
noun a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
STD; VD; venereal infection; Cupid's disease; sexually transmitted disease; Venus's curse; venereal disease; social disease; Cupid's itch.
noun street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
Elvis; Zen; battery-acid; back breaker; window pane; pane; Lucy in the sky with diamonds; acid; loony toons; dot; superman.
verb treat with an agent; add (an agent) to
- The ray dosed the paint
verb administer a drug to
drug.
- They drugged the kidnapped tourist

F. dose, Gr. a giving, a dose, fr. to give; akin to L. dare to give. See Date point of time.

The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
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.

Cf. F. doser. See Dose, n.

imperfect & past participle Dosed ; present participle & verbal noun dosing

To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
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
To give anything nauseous to.