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Administer vs Comfortment - What's the difference?

administer | comfortment |

As a verb administer

is to cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.

As a noun comfortment is

(obsolete) the act or process of administering comfort.

administer

English

Alternative forms

* administre (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.
    • We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.
  • * Macaulay
    • A noxious drug had been administered to him.
  • To apportion out.
  • * Spectator
    • A fountain administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.
  • * Macaulay
    • Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known.
  • * Philips
    • [Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.
  • 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.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • For forms of government let fools contest: / Whate'er is best administered is best.
  • To minister (to).
    • administering to the sick
  • (legal) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
  • To tender, as an oath.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Swear to keep the oath that we administer .

    Related terms

    * administration * administrative * administrator

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    comfortment

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) The act or process of administering comfort.
    • The gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador. — Hakluyt.
    (Webster 1913)