‖ ˈdosis Obs.
[med.L. a. Gr. δόσις giving, n. of action from διδόναι to give.]
= dose n. (being the form in earlier use in Eng.).
| 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. 35 b/2 (Stanf.) The dosis of gyuing of them is .ȝ. i. 1611 Coryat's Crudities Panegyr. Verses, [Thy book] a Dosis is against all Melancholy. 1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scint. ii. Joy (1858) 146 A sugerd dosis Of wormwood, and a death's-head crown'd with roses. 1668 H. More Div. Dial. i. 494 Too large a Dosis of Knowledge. |