administer
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
administer/ədˈmɪnɪstə(r)/
▶verb
- 1 attend to the organization or implementation of.
- 2 dispense (a drug or remedy).
■ deal out (punishment).
- 3 (of a priest) perform the rites of (a sacrament).
- 4 archaic or Law direct the taking of (an oath).
– derivatives
administrable adjective.
administrable adjective.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. administrare, from ad- ‘to’ + ministrare ‘wait upon’.
'administer' also found in these Oxford entries:
administrate
- assize
- baptize
- bar mitzvah
- cannula
- coddle
- commissioner for oaths
- confirm
- digitalize
- dope
- dose
- drench
- drug
- inject
- judicial factor
- letters of administration
- maladminister
- manage
- mandate
- medicate
- minister
- penitentiary
- poison
- priest
- produce
- regent
- self-medicate
- tranquillize
- treasurer
- trustee
