1. administering - Noun
2. administering - Verb
of Administer
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. Andrew Jackson
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. Thomas Paine
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. Thomas Paine
Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations. Richard Hofstadter
Metaphor... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight. Laura Riding
Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas. Jim Butcher