dose
dose is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
- 2.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.
- 3.To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
- 4.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- administer
- administration
- allocate
- allocation
- allot
- allotment
- allowance
- appoint
- appointment
- apportion
- apportionment
- appropriate
- appropriation
- assign
- assignment
- billet
- carve
- cast
- come
- consignment
- contingent
- deal
- detail
- dispensation
- dispense
- distribute
- distribution
- divide
- dividend
- division
- dole
- each
- fair
- for
- lot
- measure
- meed
- mess
- mete
- modicum
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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