Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of superintending; also, the right of superintending, or authority to superintend.
- noun Synonyms Supervision, direction, control, guidance, charge, management.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision.
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- noun The act of
superintending ;supervision
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
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Examples
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Spiritual superintendence is a superintendence of a body.
THE DANGERS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE-By Watchman Nee A Fair Mitre admin 2009
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Spiritual superintendence is a superintendence of a body.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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That Luke wrote his Gospel during this period, under the apostle's superintendence, is the not unlikely conjecture of able critics.
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Oversight or superintendence is evidently implied.
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Cooking, or at least its superintendence, is another of their pastimes, especially among the Kajjar ladies.
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Of the article superintendence, which is only L500,
The Absentee Maria Edgeworth 1808
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(6d. or 7d.); the attendance, that is, the superintendence of the guardian, two drachmas a-day; the supply of water, fifteen leptas daily; the physician, a drachma; and another drachma on leaving, for which he inspects the whole party, and examines the state of their health.
A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827
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This "superintendence" is a most unsatisfactory system, -- temporary and unprogressive in every element.
Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson
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It is difficult to account exactly for the causes of this inactivity, but I should be inclined to think some blame attaches to its government, as here are no traces of that beneficial superintendence which is so perceptible at Berne, This city cannot even boast of a public library.
A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard
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In the English tables of the cost of drainage by the Drainage Companies, an estimate of $1.25 per acre is usually put down for "superintendence," which includes the engineering and the supervision of the whole process of opening, laying and filling, securing outfalls, and every other process till the work is completed.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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