Superintend
verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To oversee the work of others; to supervise.
"Lady Marchmont had superintended her toilette, and it was the very triumph of exquisite taste; every thing about it seemed as fragile and delicate as herself."
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- 3 To administer the affairs of something or someone.
"A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York Street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse."
Example
More examples"Lady Marchmont had superintended her toilette, and it was the very triumph of exquisite taste; every thing about it seemed as fragile and delicate as herself."
Etymology
From Ecclesiastical Latin superintendō.
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