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.

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 15, in The History of England from the Accession of James II:

     A noxious drug had been administered to him.

2. (transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
   • (Can we date this quote by Spectator かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

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

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II:

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

   • (Can we date this quote by Philips かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     [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: Printed by 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.

関連する語

• administration
• administrative
• administrator

Further reading

• administer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• administer in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• administre, mistrained, nitramides

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ad.miˈnis.ter/, [ad̪.mɪˈnɪs.t̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad.miˈnis.ter/, [ad̪.miˈnis.t̪ɛr]

名詞

administer m (genitive administrī); second declension

1. assistant, helper, supporter
2. attendant
3. priest, minister

語形変化

Second-declension noun (nominative 単数形 in -er).

参照

• administer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• administer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• administer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette