Index of English words, starting with "ad"

(1) - Adminicle (n.) Corroborative or explanatory proof.
(2) - Adminicle (n.) Help or support; an auxiliary.

(1) - Administer (n.) Administrator.
(2) - Administer (v. i.) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.
(3) - Administer (v. i.) To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
(4) - Administer (v. t.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
(5) - Administer (v. t.) To tender, as an oath.
(6) - Administer (v. t.) To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.
(7) - Administer (v. t.) To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
(8) - Administer (v. t.) To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.

(1) - Administrable (a.) Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.

(1) - Administrate (v. t.) To administer.

(1) - Administration (n.) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
(2) - Administration (n.) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.
(3) - Administration (n.) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.
(4) - Administration (n.) 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.
(5) - Administration (n.) 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.