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An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.

To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel. To exhibit a foundation or prize, to hold it forth or to tender it as a bounty to candidates. -- To exibit an essay, to declaim or otherwise present it in public. [Obs.]

The act of administering a remedy.

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

nder an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.

A place where justice is administered.

To exercise authority; to administer the laws; to have the control. Dryden.

The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling powe; the administratian. When we, in England, speak of the government, we generally understand the ministers of the crown for the time being. Mozley & W.

A form of government administered in the church by patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, and, in an inferior degree, by priests. Shipley.

an oath said to have been dictated by Hippocrates to his disciples. Such an oath is still administered to candidates for graduation in medicine.

the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. [Written also homoepathy.]

To administer the eucharist to. [Archaic] Chaucer.

h our experience informs us. Sir W. Hamilton. Hypothetical baptism (Ch. of Eng.), baptism administered to persons in respect to whom it is doubtful whether they have or have not been baptized before. Hook. -- Hy`po*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. South.

A bishop, who, during a vacancy of the see, administers the bishopric till a successor is installed.

ergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church.

tice of the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together.

lic officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate…

A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.

One who administers justice; a judge. [Obs.] "Some upright justicer." Shak.

of the keys (Eccl.), the authority claimed by the ministry in some Christian churches to administer the discipline of the church, and to grant or withhold its privileges; -- so called from the declaration of Christ, "I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven." Matt. xvi. 19.