[UNDER-1 10 a.]
1. trans. To dose (a person) insufficiently; to administer too small a dose to.
1740. Cheyne, Regimen, p. liv. Nature will,… by acute and intolerable Pains from Hunger, apprize him at least in some time, if he has under-dos’d her.
2. To give in insufficient doses.
1744. Phil. Trans., XLIII. 216. On the contrary, I was rather induced to think, that it had … been usually under-dosed.
