To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            To direct the application, execution, use, or general conduct of.