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.
Wiktionary
n. Administration vb. (present participle of administer English)
Usage examples of "administering".
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.
The specific treatment, which should not be omitted, consists in administering doses of ten drops of the tincture of the muriate of iron in alternation with teaspoonful doses of the Golden Medical Discovery, every three hours.
If this be not at hand, the spasm may be relieved by administering freely of Dr.
As santonin is almost entirely tasteless, if not combined with other medicines which are unpalatable, no difficulty will be experienced in administering it to children.
This should be done, not by administering stimulants, but by relieving it of all contingent embarrassments as far as possible.
Temporary relief may be given by administering one-quarter of a grain of morphine, or ten to twenty drops of chloroform in a teaspoonful of glycerine, slightly diluted, taken in one dose.
Soul, presiding over the conjunction of the two, and to be thought of not as labouring in the task but as administering serenely by little more than an act of presence.
She lifted the device to her neck, but she paused before administering it.
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By undermining his confidence, he again worried that maybe he had erred in administering the anesthesia that fateful day.
Jeffrey was particularly interested in the initial sequence of events, when Chris was first administering the epidural anesthesia.
Doherty was far along in administering the continuous epidural on Karen Hodges.
On all state occasions, levees and daily grantings of public audience and administerings of justice, it had graced the brow of the young king and had conferred upon him a dreadful majesty in the eyes of the beholders.