administer vs impose

administer

verb
  • To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity. 

  • To give, as an oath. 

  • To apportion out, distribute. 

  • To minister (to). 

  • To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor. 

  • (medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means. 

  • (medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit. 

impose

verb
  • To establish or apply by authority. 

  • To practice a trick or deception (on or upon). 

  • To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc. 

  • to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way 

  • To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. 

  • to be an inconvenience (on or upon) 

How often have the words administer and impose occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )