ADMINISTRATION

in an ecclesiastical sense, is used to expre the giving or dispensing the sacrament of our Lord.—In its more general use it signifies the distribution of the personal effects of intestates, which is made by the ordinary according to the enactment of sundry statutes; the principal of which is 22 and 23 Car. II. cap. x. ADMONITION. The first step of ecclesiastical censure, according to the words of the apostle, “a man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject.” (Tit. iii. 10.) This part of episcopal discipline always precedes excommunication; which, however, must nece arily follow, if the offender continue contumacious, and hardened in his error or crime. Vide Canon 64, . The word also occurs in the Ordination Service: “following with a glad mind and will their godly admonition.”— Jebb.