Dose /(dōs)/

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 unpleasant that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one; also used figuratively, as to give someone a dose of his own medicine, i. e. to retaliate in kind.

   I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses.

   I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down.

4. a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed.

imp. & p. p. Dosed; p. pr. & vb. n. dosing

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.”

3. To give anything nauseous to.