Commit and Administer

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

verb

• Work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of.
  • usage: "administer a program"; "she administers the funds"
  • synonyms: administrate
• Perform (a church sacrament) ritually.
  • usage: "administer the last unction"
• Administer or bestow, as in small portions.
  • usage: "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks"
  • synonyms: distribute, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out
• Give or apply (medications.
  • synonyms: dispense
• Direct the taking of.
  • usage: "administer an exam"; "administer an oath"

• (v.t.) To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.
• (v.t.) To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
• (v.t.) To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.
• (v.t.) To tender, as an oath.
• (v.t.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will or whose will fails of an executor.
• (v.i.) To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
• (v.i.) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.
• (n.) Administrator.