Administer vs Subminister - What's the difference?
administer | subminister |
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
(archaic) to supply; to administer
(archaic) to be subservient (to)
* L'Estrange
As verbs the difference between administer and subminister
is that administer is to cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit while subminister is (archaic) to supply; to administer.As a noun subminister is
a subordinate minister.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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* *Anagrams
* ----subminister
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Verb
(en verb)- Our passions subminister to the best and worst purposes.