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administer
English
Alternative forms
- administre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English admynistren, from Old French aminister, from Latin administrare (“to manage, execute”), from ad (“to”) + ministrare (“to attend, serve”), from minister (“servant”); see minister.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?d?m?n?st?/
Verb
administer (third-person singular simple present administers, present participle administering, simple past and past participle administered)
- (transitive) To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
- (transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
- A fountain […] administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.
- (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).
- (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
- To give, as an oath.
- (medicine) To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.
Related terms
- administration
- administrative
- administrator
Translations
Further reading
- administer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- administer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- administre, mistrained, nitramides
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ad.mi?nis.ter/, [äd?m??n?s?t??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ad.mi?nis.ter/, [?d?mi?nist??r]
Noun
administer m (genitive administr?); second declension
- assistant, helper, supporter
- attendant
- priest, minister
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
References
- administer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- administer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- administer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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predrug
English
Etymology
pre- +? drug
Adjective
predrug (not comparable)
- Before a drug is administered.
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