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Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.

One who administers.

To administer. [R.] Milman.

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy. -- Ad*min"is*tra`tive*ly, adv.

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.

y advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.

story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches. [Archaic] Unto-the angel of the church of Ephesus write. Rev. ii. 1.

A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

tolic office. -- Apostolical succession, the regular and uninterrupted transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of bishops from the apostles to any subsequent period. Hook.

ns of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural. Brande. Wharton. Craig. Burrill.

on. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their obje…

That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus.

Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end). [Obs.] Golding.

One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.

One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ. Milton.