Administered vs Governed - What's the difference?
administered | governed |
(administer)
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
(govern)
To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
To exercise political authority; to run a government.
To have or exercise a determining influence.
To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
As verbs the difference between administered and governed
is that administered is past tense of administer while governed is past tense of govern.administered
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Verb
(head)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 .
External links
* *Anagrams
* ----governed
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Verb
(head)govern
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Verb
(en verb)- Govern yourselves like civilized people.
- a student who could not govern his impulses.
- Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
- a valve that governs fuel intake.