administer
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
< Middle English admynistren < Old French aminister < Latin administrare (“‘to manage, execute’”) < ad (“‘to’”) + ministrare (“‘to attend, serve’”) < minister (“‘servant’”); see minister.
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[edit] Verb
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to administer (third-person singular simple present administers, present participle administering, simple past and past participle administered)
- (transitive) To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.
- We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.
- (transitive) To apportion out, as in administering justice.
- (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
- (intransitive) To minister to, as in administering to the sick.
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[edit] Translations
to cause to take by openly offering or through deceit
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to work in an administrative capacity; to supervise
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to minister to the sick
[edit] External links
- administer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- administer in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Anagrams
- Alphagram: adeiimnrst
- nitramides
