- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
- (v.t.) To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.
- (v.t.) To tender, as an oath.
- (v.t.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will or whose will fails of an executor.
- (v.i.) To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
- (v.i.) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.
- (n.) Administrator.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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