Nor is this to be wondered at, for in all other animals tact or touch administers only to their physical necessities.
Afterward headministers the sacrament of Extreme Unction--last anointing.
The priest first hears the sick person's confession, then he administers holy communion.
In addition to these charities from its general funds, the Academy administersfor the benefit of artists, not members of the Academy, certain other funds which have been bequeathed to it for charitable purposes, viz.
If a woman administers to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means to procure her own miscarriage, she is guilty of felony.
It leads us to those remedies which the church administers under a sensible form--the sacraments.
The fifth administers flagellation to Charles Dickens for certain things in his American Notes; and also to Mrs. Trollope, for her Visit to Italy.
The fact that an individual is a lord or a prince, a father or a mother, a child or a subject, administers authority or obeys it, will not excuse him from being baptized and believing in Christ.
Each association arranges the details of its own organisation, and administers its own affairs.
If the cabinet to-day legislates with the advice and consent of the House, it administers subject to its constant supervision and criticism.
And how can it be supposed that God administers by his own providence human concerns, when to vain and trifling persons prosperous things happen, to great and high adverse?
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause.
The great instrument of moral good is imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause.
It is not the being of a thing that administers matter of knowledge or foresight thereof to God, but the perfection of his knowledge, wisdom, and power, &c.
Enumerate the laws under which the Interstate Commerce Commission now administers the railroads.
This board promotes vocational education in coöperation with the several states, and administers the Federal aid granted to the states under the Act.
Presidium of the People's Assembly--Administers and conducts governmental functions between Assembly meetings.
And it goes without saying that its successful solution, in a reformatory for criminals, depends upon the character of the man who administers the institution.
The robber used to knock us down and take away our sheepskins; he now administers chloroform and relieves us of our watches.
That same law, as it is supposed to proceed from some other source, or to speak more correctly, for Homer, as the power which administers it is separately personified.
In the third, he punishes the guilty, and especially administers the one grand penal law of death.
But they are deities, each of whom singly in a particular province administers a function, which also belongs to a deity of higher dignity.
A Department of Crown Lands in the Dominion government and in each province (in Nova Scotia the Attorney-General acting as head) administers the lands.
When that is to begin she administers the anæsthetic, and Joseph, in a long pair of rubber gloves, acts as assistant.
The well-disposed hostess of an inn administers a sleeping-draught, in Arbaud's ballad and in Decombe's.
She administers India with an eye single to England's interests, not India's, and she passes upon every question as a judge would were he permitted to decide his own case.
The rain-doctor selects a particular bulbous root, pounds it, and administers a cold infusion of it to a sheep, which in five minutes afterwards expires in convulsions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "administers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
