verb 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.
verb To minister (to).
administering to the sick
verb To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
verb To give, as an oath.
verb 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.
verb To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.