What is the difference between administer and dispense?
administer | dispense |
To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.
* Macaulay
To apportion out.
* Spectator
* Macaulay
* Philips
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
To minister (to).
(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
To issue, distribute, or put out.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
* Dryden
To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
To eliminate or do without; used intransitively with with .
(obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
* , II.34:
* Macaulay
* Johnson
(obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
* Spenser
* Gower
(obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
(obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
* , II.xii:
Dispense is a synonym of administer.
As verbs the difference between administer and dispense
is that administer is to cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit while dispense is to issue, distribute, or put out.As a noun dispense is
cost, expenditure.administer
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Alternative forms
* administre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.
- A noxious drug had been administered to him.
- A fountain administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.
- Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known.
- [Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.
- For forms of government let fools contest: / Whate'er is best administered is best.
- administering to the sick
- Swear to keep the oath that we administer .
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Verb
- He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.
- The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
- to dispense justice
- While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
- The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
- An optician can dispense spectacles.
- I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.
- After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline.
- It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.
- He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
- One loving hour / For many years of sorrow can dispense .
- His sin was dispensed / With gold, whereof it was compensed.
Derived terms
* dispensary * dispenserNoun
(en noun)- what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence [...].
