Brittany vs Administer - What's the difference?
brittany | administer |
A region in north-west France.
* 1595 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 3 , First Folio 1623, Act II, Scene VI:
*:First, will I see the Coronation, / And then to Britanny Ile crosse the Sea, / To effect this marriage, so it please my Lord.
(obsolete, chiefly, poetic) The British Isles.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.11:
*:The noble Thamis […] seem'd to stoupe afore / With bowed backe, by reason of the lode / And auncient heavy burden which he bore / Of that faire City, wherein make abode / So many learned impes, that shoote abrode, / And with their braunches spred all Britany […].
popular in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
* 1990 (Alice Munro), Friend of My Youth , ISBN 0679729577, page 102:
* 1999 (Andrew Pyper), Lost Girls : Chapter Ten:
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
As a proper noun brittany
is a region in north-west france.As a verb administer is
to cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.brittany
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* (female given name) Britney, BrittneyProper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers." "I have a granddaughter named Brittany ," Hazel said. " And I have heard of a little girl called Cappuccino." "Cappuccino! Is that true? Why don't they call one Cassaulet? Fettuccini? Alsace-Lorraine?"
- Names of the times. Borrowed from soap opera characters of prominence fifteen years ago, who have since been replaced by spiffy new models: the social-climbing Brittany'' now an unscrupulous ''Burke'', the generous ''Pamela'' a refitted, urbanized ''Parker .
See also
*administer
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* 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 .