maladministrations

Noun

maladministration (countable and uncountable, plural maladministrations)

1. (uncountable) Faulty, improper, or inefficient administration or management, especially by a government body; (countable) an instance of this.
   • Near-synonyms: mismanagement, misgovernance

   Synonyms:

   misadministration, mismanagement, misgovernance

2. (countable, obsolete) An act of incorrectly administering a religious rite; also, a religious group that permits such a practice.
   • […] I vvould have the Sacraments on their vvheels, and yet ſo that their mal-adminiſtration bring not epidemick judgements upon us, as the receiving unvvorthily did on the Church of Corinth.1656, Richard Vines, “What Must be Done where Discipline Cannot be Executed for Want of Administrators”, in A Treatise of the Right Institution, Administration, and Receiving of the Sacrament of the...