v.
    - attend to the organization or implementation of.
- dispense (a drug or remedy). ▸deal out (punishment). 
- (of a priest) perform the rites of (a sacrament).
- archaic or Law  direct the taking of (an oath).
Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: via OFr. from L. administrare, from ad- ‘to’ + ministrare ‘wait upon’.