administre

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A form of administer — To apportion out, distribute.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbadministre (third-person singular simple present administres, present participle administring, simple past and past participle administred)

present singular third person administres · participle present administring · participle past administred · past administred

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of administer.
    1 more example

    And if they shall, uppon this general overture, declare unto you, that they desire only the said free pardon, and Parliament, you shall promyse them, as is aforsaid, to be suters with them ; soo as they will sett their handes to tharticles therof, and, with the same, promyse no further to molest Us, with other particuler or publique matiers, ne to administre unto Us any further occasions, that might provoke our indignation against them, but to use them selfes in all thinges like good and faithfull subgiettes.

    1536, Henry VIII. quoted in State Papers, page #515

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “administre,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/administre.

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