单词 | administered |
释义 | administeredadj. 1. That is or has been administered (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > [adjective] > given givena1382 accorded1445 administered?1574 bestowed1667 gifted1671 granted1700 ?1574 C. Vitell tr. ‘Elidad’ Good & Fruitfull Exhort. Famelie of Loue sig. A5 Therfore shall also the administred Foode of the gratious Woord..be to such a tast of Foode vnto eueryone, as hee gladlie eateth. 1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Ess. Pathol. Brain ix. 67 By an untimely use of the administred Remedy, the defluxion stop'd. 1770 Hist. Duelling 3 Those impleaders, whom the administered oath to offenders did not sufficiently satisfy. 1822 Philadelphia Universalist Mag. Feb. 219/2 The administered punishment was designed to put a stop to the practice of vice. 1868 Amer. Church Monthly Oct. 166 The Church retains in its true place the preached word, and the administered sacrament. 1882 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 16 581 The vomiting of the administered salt by the cat..was a frequent source of delay. 1920 J. H. McCarthy Henry Elizabeth i. xix. 154 Henry Elizabeth had the grace to colour a little at the delicately administered rebuke of the goldsmith. 1952 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 May 999/1 If the administered dose of hormone greatly exceeds endogenous production it causes some degree of hypercorticism. 2005 R. Gane Cult & Char. xvii. 359 The threat that anyone who does not practice self-denial will suffer the divinely administered penalty of extirpation. 2. spec. That is or has been managed, controlled, effected, kept running, etc.; subjected to administration. ΚΠ 1844 W. C. Smedes & T. A. Marshall Rep. High Court Mississippi 1 237 The complainant, as administrator,..is entitled to them as a part of the administered assets of the estate. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Nov. 10 The highly administered Arabs of the Tell or cultivated districts. 1922 M. H. Bradley On Gorilla Trail v. 60 In the administered territories the chiefs are required to have a certain amount of work done on the paths. 1990 M. M. J. Fischer & M. Abedi Debating Muslims iii. 159 The modern conditions of the hajj..give it an administered, package tour feel. 2010 M. Brocken Other Voices i. 16 Maher believed in taking such music to different venues rather than forcing people to pass along an administered pathway. 3. Economics. Of a price, interest rate, etc.: determined not by market forces but by administrative action (as of a large company or a government). ΚΠ 1934 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 173 8/2 The constantly maintained price of steel rails, of aluminum, of many types of standard agricultural equipment..—all these reflect an administered price rather than a price bargained in the market place. 1935 G. C. Means Industr. Prices (74th U.S. Congress 1 Sess. Senate Misc. Doc. No. 13) 1 A market price is one which is made in the market as the result of the interaction of buyers and sellers... An administered price is..a price which is set by administrative action and held constant for a period of time. 1936 J. M. Keynes Gen. Theory Employment v. xix. 268 ‘Administered’ or monopoly prices..are determined by other considerations beside marginal cost. 1981 A. S. Courakis Inflation, Depression, & Econ. Policy in West 123 Banks' base rates are administered rates, not market-determined. 2005 D. O. Mitchell & M. Mielke in M. A. Aksoy & J. C. Beghin Global Agric. Trade & Developing Countries xi. 208/2 Domestic producers are paid an administered purchase price for wheat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.?1574 |
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