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a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire. Every county, every town, every family, was in agitation. Macaulay.

s officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.

and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.

st to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit. The delegated administration of the law. Locke. Delegated executive power. Bancroft. The power exercised by the legislature is the people's power, delegated by the people to the legislative. J. B. Finch.

, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty Differencies of administration, but the same Lord. 1 Cor. xii. 5.

ting, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o. I do commit his youth To your direction. Shak. All nature is but art, unknown to thee;direction, which thou canst not see. Pope.

r discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Shak. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent. Hallam

ibution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke.

The administration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.

extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire. Empire carries with it the idea of a vast and complicated government. C. J. Smith.

Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark. Epidermic administration of medicine (Med.), the application of medicine to the skin by friction.

The administration of ether to produce insensibility.

n inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents. Chambers.

Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive. The official and executory duties of government. Burke.

d States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.

One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer. Burke.

The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

The place or office of direction or administration. "The helm of the Commonwealth." Melmoth.

t home. (c) Prepared to receive callers. -- Home department, the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] To be at home on any subject, to be conversant or familiar with it. -- To feel at home, to be at one's ease. -- To make one's self at home, to conduc…