Definition of administer

• 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.
• 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.