The phrase "administer an oath" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts when referring to the act of formally giving an oath to someone, often in a judicial or official setting.
Example: "The judge will administer an oath to the witness before they testify in court."
Alternatives: "take an oath" or "swear an oath."
A statement from Mr. Biden's office said that he "personally selected Associate Justice Sotomayor, who will be the first Hispanic and fourth female judge to administer an oath of office".
And when Kennedy asked who could swear him in, Katzenbach said, "Anyone who can administer an oath," a category that included any federal judge or hundreds of other government officials; the place or the exact time of the swearing in didn't matter.
The word "exorcism" is derived from the Greek word exorkismós, which means "to administer an oath".
Wherefore all you who are come this day to do your homage and service, are you willing to do the same?" After the people acclaim the Sovereign at each side, the Archbishop administers an oath to the Sovereign.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom Gorsuch clerked as a young lawyer, will administer a public oath later at the White House.
George W. Bush left his country with a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who couldn't administer a 35-word oath without tripping over his own dick.
(Chief Justice Roberts also administered a private oath to Mr. Obama in 2009, after the two men flubbed the words during the public ceremony).
Sotomayor became the first Hispanic and fourth woman to administer the oath to a president or vice president.
At just past 11 a.m., Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administered a pair of oaths to her in two private ceremonies at the Supreme Court building, completing her ascent to a life-tenured position as the nation's 111th justice — the first to be nominated by a Democratic president since 1994.
Judith S. Kaye, the chief judge of New York State and a friend of Mr. Bloomberg, will administer his oath.
