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.
To assume responsibility for steering a ship
To take over responsibility (of something) from someone else