meaning of administer
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.
2. To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
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.
4. To tender, as an oath.
5. To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
6. To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
7. To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.
8. Administrator.
9. give or apply medications
Related Words
administer | administered | administerial | administering |
