administerとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English admynistren, from Old French aminister, from Latin administrare (“to manage, execute”), from ad (“to”) + ministrare (“to attend, serve”), from minister (“servant”); see minister.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ədˈmɪnɪstɚ/

動詞

administer (三人称単数 現在形 administers, 現在分詞 administering, 過去形および過去分詞形 administered)

1. (transitive) To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.

   We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     A noxious drug had been administered to him.

2. (transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
   • 1712 September 17, Joseph Addison, “SATURDAY, September 6, 1712 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 477; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     A fountain […] administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     Justice was administered between man and man with an exactness and purity not before known.

   • 1708, John Philips, Cyder

     [Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.

3. (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle 3, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:

     For forms of government let fools contest: / Whate'er is best administered is best.

4. (intransitive) To minister (to).

   administering to the sick

5. (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
6. To give, as an oath.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Swear […] to keep the oath that we administer.

7. (medicine) To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.

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