Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To administer a dose (of medicine) to. · To prescribe a dose. · To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie. · To transmit a venereal disease to.
Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”). Mostly displaced English drench. Doublet of doos.
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