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verb

Administer v. t. (past & past part. administered; pres. part. administering)

1.

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state. "For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best."

2.

To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament. "(Let zephyrs) administer their tepid, genial airs." "Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known."

3.

To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. "A noxious drug had been administered to him."

4.

To tender, as an oath. "Swear... to keep the oath that we administer."

5.

(Law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

Synonyms: To manage; conduct; minister; supply; dispense; give out; distribute; furnish.

Administer v. i.

1.

To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister. "A fountain... administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place."

2.

(Law) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.

noun

Administer n. Administrator. (Obs.)

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... two days he did not see Mary Lowthcr. On the Friday he met her with Mrs. Fenwick as the two were returning from the mill. They had gone to visit Mrs. Brattle and Fanny, and to administer such comfort as was possible in the present circumstances. The poor woman told them that the father was now as silent about his son as about his daughter, but that he had himself gone over to Heytesbury to secure legal advice for the lad, and to learn ...

— The Vicar of Bullhampton • Anthony Trollope

... examination or discussion, passed into a law. Dr. Ryerson at once called the attention of the Government (at the head of which was the late lamented Lord Elgin) to the impracticable and un-Christian character of the bill, as under its operation the Bible would be excluded from the schools. Rather than administer such an Act, Dr. Ryerson tendered the resignation of his office to the Government. The late Honourable Robert Baldwin, C.B., Attorney-General (the Nestor of Canadian politicians, and a truly Christian man), was so convinced of the justness of Dr. Ryerson's views and remonstrance, ...

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... the two countries. Scotland was a part of the same island as England; "there was no physical impediment to rapid and constant communication; the relative situation of the two countries was such that the King himself could administer the executive government in both, and there was no occasion for a separate establishment being kept up in each." But the sea lay between England and Ireland, and the delays and sometimes difficulties which were thus interposed rendered it "necessary that Ireland should have ...

— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge

... dependent upon them, govern the land. They control nearly all the elections to Parliament, both in the Lords and in the Commons. They make peace and they make war. They officer the army and the navy. They, or persons whom they appoint, administer the affairs of the church and of the state, and expend the revenues, and they make the laws. In a word, ...

— Rollo in London • Jacob Abbott

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