administer.
To apportion out, distribute.
Meaning & usage
To apportion out, distribute.
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.
To minister (to).
administering to the sick
To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
To give, as an oath.
To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means.
We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.
To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English administren, from Old French aminister, from Latin administrare (“to manage, execute”), from ad (“to”) + ministrare (“to attend, serve”), from minister (“servant”); see minister.
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