[f. L. administrāt- ppl. stem of administrā-re: see ADMINISTER (cf. demonstrate, etc.). A by-form of ADMINISTER v. (a sacrament, oath, medicine).
1651. Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (1843), II. 38. That no maner of person, in time coming, administrat anie of the sacraments secreetlie.
1733. G. Cheyne, Eng. Malady (1735), Pref. When Lithotomy cannot be administrated.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr., III. v. (1864), II. 70. The delinquent clerk might be deprived for a time of his power of administrating sacred things.
