Part 175

<h1>Administerial</h1> <Xpage=22>

<hw>Ad*min`is*te"ri*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.</def>

<h1>Administrable</h1> <Xpage=22>

<hw>Ad*min"is*tra*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being administered; <as>as, an <ex>administrable</ex> law</as>.</def>

<h1>Administrant</h1> <Xpage=22>

<hw>Ad*min"is*trant</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F., p. pr. of <ets>administrer</ets>. See <er>Administer</er>.]</ety> <def>Executive; acting; managing affairs.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def> One who administers.</def></def2>

<h1>Administrate</h1> <Xpage=22>

<hw>Ad*min"is*trate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>administratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>administrare</ets>.]</ety> <def>To administer.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Milman.</i>

<h1>Administration</h1> <Xpage=22>

<hw>Ad*min`is*tra"tion</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>administracioun</ets>, L. <ets>administratio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>administration</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management.</def>

<blockquote>His financial <b>administration</b> was of a piece with his military <b>administration</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.</def>

<blockquote>A mild and popular <b>administration</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>administration</b> has been opposed in parliament. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; <as>as, the <ex>administration</ex> of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament</as>.</def>

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<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term <i>execution</i> not being in use.</def>

<cs><col>Administration with the will annexed</col>, <cd>administration granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Conduct; management; direction; regulation; execution; dispensation; distribution.</syn>

<h1>Administrative</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad*min"is*tra`tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>administrativus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>administratif</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; <as>as, an <ex>administrative</ex> body, ability, or energy</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Ad*min"is*tra`tive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Administrator</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad*min`is*tra"tor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.</def>

<h1>Administratorship</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad*min`is*tra"tor*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The position or office of an administrator.</def>

<h1>Administratrix</h1> <Xpage=23>