ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Managed, carried on; dispensed, tendered.
1538. Starkey, England, 46. Cyvyle ordur and polytyke law, admynystyrd by offycers and rularys.
1651. Hobbes, Leviathan, II. xxx. 176. The Kingdome of God, (administred by Moses,) over the Jewes.
1809. Tomlins, Law Dict., s.v. Oath, The Oath of Allegiance, as administered for upwards of six hundred years.
1865. Pall Mall G., 6 Nov., 10/1. The highly administered Arabs of the Tell or cultivated districts have sunk into poverty.
Mod. The dose administered was deadly poison.
