(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.
