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The act of ministering; service; ministry. "The days of his ministration." Luke i. 23.

fairs; 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.

The act of subministering. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

ress, 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.

xed 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.

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 co…

; 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.