APage 80
- English Word Administration Definition 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.
- English Word Administration Definition 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.
- English Word Administration Definition 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.
- English Word Administration Definition The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.
- English Word Administration Definition The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
- English Word Administrative Definition Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.
- English Word Administrator Definition One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.
- English Word Administrator Definition A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.
- English Word Administratorship Definition The position or office of an administrator.
- English Word Administratrix Definition A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.
- English Word Admirability Definition Admirableness.
- English Word Admirable Definition Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous.
- English Word Admirable Definition Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things.
- English Word Admirableness Definition The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.
- English Word Admirably Definition In an admirable manner.
- English Word Admiral Definition A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.
- English Word Admiral Definition The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.
- English Word Admiral Definition A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.
- English Word Admiralship Definition The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.
- English Word Admiralties Definition of Admiralty
- English Word Admiralty Definition The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
- English Word Admiralty Definition The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
- English Word Admiralty Definition The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
- English Word Admiralty Definition The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
- English Word Admiralty Definition The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
- English Word Admirance Definition Admiration.
- English Word Admiration Definition Wonder; astonishment.
- English Word Admiration Definition Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.
- English Word Admiration Definition Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.
- English Word Admirative Definition Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder.