administer vs superintend

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. 

superintend

verb
  • To oversee the work of others; to supervise. 

  • To administer the affairs of something or someone. 

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