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affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.

Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs. [Written also maleadministration.]

Maladministration.

Previous administration. Bp. Pearson.

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.

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

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

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

ood; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.

by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration. Before the gates, the cries of babes newborn, . . . Assault his ears. Dryden.

entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. Bouvier.

ogress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff. Useful check upon the administration of government. Washington. A man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.

A district under the administration of a military commander or governor. [R.] Brougham.

ce it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and accession of another. [Eng.] -- The United States Christians Commission, an organization among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded material…

of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the nation. Hallam.

ment. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham.

The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration. Macaulay. Board of control. See under Board.