The Collaborative International Dictionary
Administer \Ad*min"is*ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Administered; p. pr. & vb. n. Administering.] [OE. aministren, OF. aministrer, F. administer, fr. L. administrare; ad + ministrare to serve. See Minister.]
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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.
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To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
[Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.
--Philips.Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known.
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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.
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To tender, as an oath.
Swear . . . to keep the oath that we administer.
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(Law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
Syn: To manage; conduct; minister; supply; dispense; give out; distribute; furnish.
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vb. (en-past of: administer)
Usage examples of "administered".
Ignorant priests or astrologers administered drugs, concerning the properties of which they had no knowledge, to appease the wrath of mythological deities.
The only difference between the schools is in the remedies employed, the size of dose administered, and the results attained.
But for domestic use we cannot advise its employment, as it is liable to injure the invalid, when its action is carried too far, which is apt to be the case, when not administered under the supervision of a competent physician.
This agent may be administered in doses of from five to ten drops, largely diluted in water or gruel.
It should generally be administered during the intervals between the febrile paroxysms.
It is sometimes administered in scarlet and typhus fevers, and in all diseases in which there is a tendency to putrescence.
In severe hemorrhages, this quantity should be administered every half hour, until the bleeding is checked.
In doses of from twenty to sixty drops of the fluid extract, administered in a cup of warm water or herb-tea on going to bed, we have found it very effectual for breaking up recent colds.
Our favorite mode of administering both veratrum and aconite is to add ten drops of the tincture to ten or fifteen teaspoonfuls of water, of which one teaspoonful may be administered every hour.
It should be administered in very small doses to secure the best results.
The Compound Extract of Smart-weed should be administered in some diaphoretic herb-tea.
During the sweating stage the patient should be left alone, but as soon as the perspiration ceases, from two to four of the Purgative Pellets should be administered, as a gentle cathartic.
During the height of the fever, tincture of aconite maybe given and an alkaline sponge-bath administered with advantage.
Its efficacy may be increased in this disease by adding to each bottle one ounce of the acetate of potash, and, when thus modified, it may be administered in the same manner as if no addition had been made to it.
The bed should be warmed after these are administered and the patient given hot lemonade to bring on free action of the skin, kidneys, and bowels.