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claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham.

Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.

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

e, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

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

r of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Britain.

Admiration. [Obs.] Spenser.

Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder. [R.] Earle.

Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance. -- Ad*mir"ing*ly, adv. Shak.

Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented. Shipley.

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson.

The act of adoring; adoration. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

With adoration.

An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

legal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." [Obs.] Smollett.

Adulteration; corruption. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Deliberate consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her Shak.

Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.