Dosing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dose \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.
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     2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give
        potions to, constantly and without need.
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              A self-opinioned physician, worse than his
              distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him,
              "secundum artem."                     -- South
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     3. To give anything nauseous to.
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