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administrer (s.xii2/4)
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The form aministrer is a cross reference to the following entry:

administrer (s.xii2/4)

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aministrer,  amministrer  (administier (l. administrer))  
  FEW:  administrare 24,165b Gdf:  amenestrer 1,258b GdfC:  administrer 8,34a TL: amenistrer 1,339 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  administrer  TLF:  administrer  OED:  administer v,  MED:  administren v.  DMLBS:  administrare 31b

v.trans.

1to administer, manage: 
( 1321-22 )  qe […] ils dussent de droit administrer les biens & les chateux qe furent au dit J.  Rot Parl1 i 403
( 1357 )  pur administrer ses biens  Stats i 351 xi
2law(of a will) to execute: 
( 1397 )  donant a eulx […] plein povoir […] de tres touts mes biens et chateulx administier (l. administrer)  Test Ebor i 234
( 1483-84 )  et ilx pledent ne unques executors ne unques admynystrés come executors  Exchequer Chamber ii 61.4
3to perform, carry out: 
( 1372 )  faire et aministrer les divines services en nostre chapelle  GAUNT1 ii 77
( 1403-05; MS: s.xv1 )  […] qui nous a fait et administré tresbon et humble service  Lett & Pet 356.293.43
4to minister, attend to: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiiiin )  Deu les susciterat (on Judgement Day), Tuz amministerat, Viez humes e enfanz  thaon Body and Soul (C) 524
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  pus fu Dampnedeus des angles aministrez  GUISCH 489
5to provide, supply (with): 
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  La terre nous aministre II choses, noz vivres tant come nous vivoms, et noz sepultures aprés la mort  Mandeville 458
6to serve: 
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  La mesme pardona Nostre Seignur les pecchés a Marie Magdaleyne, la elle luy lavoit ses piez de ses lermes et les esuioit de ses cheveux. La ly administroit seinte Marthe  Mandeville 215

v.intrans.

law(of wills etc.) to act as executor: 
( 1293 )  yl aveit le administracioun dé bens le mort […] e aministra cum executour  YBB 20-21 Ed I 375
( 1311 )  ses executours […] administrerent les biens mesme cestuy Johan  YBB Ed II ix 23
( 1388 )  quant les deux administrent […] il serra inconvenient a doner cest accion pour l’un executour devers l’autre  YBB 12 Rich II 1
♦lawto act as executor, appointed by ecclesiastical authority in the case of an intestate: 
( 1388 )  l’evesqz graunta l’administracion a un M. de B., clerk, le quel administra  YBB 12 Rich II 91

See also:

ministrer1 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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