Administer vs Innovate - What's the difference?
administer | innovate |
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
(obsolete) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
* , New York 2001, p.80:
* South
To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
To introduce (something) as new.
In lang=en terms the difference between administer and innovate
is that administer is to minister (to) while innovate is to introduce (something) as new.As verbs the difference between administer and innovate
is that administer is to cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit while innovate is (obsolete|transitive) to alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.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
(en-verb)- But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].
- From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
- to innovate a word or an act
