ADMINISTER Copy link • ADMINISTERadministrare (to manage or administer anything: negotium, rem, bellum, rempublicam, magistratum): fungi aliqua re (to perform anything thoroughly, and to one’s own satisfaction: munere, officiis, honoribus): gerere (to bear, to carry on; with reference to one’s conduct in power: magistratum, imperium, honores, rempublicam, rem, rem bene, male): praeesse alicui rei (to preside over it): procurare (to manage anything for another in his absence). Afford, Vid: Contribute to, Vid. PHRASE, to administer an oath to anybody, alicui jusjurandum deferre (to put him onhis oath; to tender an oath to him): jurejurando aliquem astringere, obstringere, obligare (to bind anybody by oath). To administer physic to anybody, dare alicui medicamentum (ad or contra aliquid): medicamentum potui dare alicui (if it is a draught): adhibere medicinam alicui (to employ it in anybody’s case). To administer poison to anybody, venenum alicui infundere. To administer the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, *celebrare eucharistiam. To administer justice, judicium facere (of coming to a decision in a particular case): jus dicere. dare, reddere (general term for pronouncing sentence, especially of the praetor, and governors of provinces): judicium exercere (to preside over a judicial investigation, as judge).