单词 | superintendence |
释义 | superintendencen. 1. Supervisory responsibility or authority, or the exercise of this; overseeing, management, supervision. Also: the action or process of superintending; the office, function, or role of a superintendent (in various senses); an instance of this. Sometimes with of, over (the person or thing superintended). Cf. superintendency n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > superintendence oversighta1400 surviewc1421 supervisionc1475 supervisorship1482 survey1535 surveying1538 superintendence1559 superintendency1579 superinspection1617 supervising1634 intendment1638 supravision1642 surintendency1650 supervisal1652 supervisure1690 intendancy1727 surintendence1744 supervisance1816 overseering1854 overseeing1890 1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale vii. vi. f. 154 Men of approued honestie, whiche haue wel ruled their owne houses, executinge their duetie..with diligent superintendence [L. administratione rerum]. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1312 Eudoxus..asked the reason, why Ceres had no charge and superintendance [Fr. superintendence] over Love matters. 1665 R. South Serm. preached before Court 17 The mind..with an universal superintendence; it arbitrates upon..them..all. 1763 T. Percy Let. 30 Aug. in Percy Lett. (1954) IV. 49 I intend to inscribe the whole Collection,..and the plan of it formed under his elegant super-intendance. 1779 Mirror No. 25. ⁋3 I was just returning from the superintendence of my plows in a field. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. iii. 30 Had his father placed him under the superintendance of a permanent tutor. View more context for this quotation 1867 J. Ruskin Time & Tide ii. §8 To occupy themselves in the superintendence of public institutions. 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 668/2 The..intendant of circuit, who has a direct general superintendence over all the affairs of the circuit. 1908 Econ. Jrnl. 18 154 The middlewoman renders an important service in the superintendence and distribution of work. 1977 J. Wilton-Ely in S. Kostof Architect 197 Some thirty pupils in all underwent their training in surveying, measuring, costing, superintendence, and draftsmanship. 2009 Times (Nexis) 21 May 67 Although the Attorney-General..can recuse herself, the DPP is legally obliged to discharge his functions under her superintendence. 2. Christian Church. The position or authority of an ecclesiastical superintendent; = superintendency n. 1; an area covered by this; = superintendency n. 3a. Also: a body of superintendents. Now chiefly historical.Originally in the reformed Church of Scotland. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] > office of prelacya1387 pontificals?a1475 officialshipc1475 bishopric1520 high priesthood1535 superintendence1561 prelateship1570 pontificality1593 officiality1597 prelature1602 prelation1611 prelaty1641 pontificacy1665 pontificate1702 officialty1720 presulate1853 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > various Christian superiors > [noun] > Presbyterian > body of superintendents superintendence1561 1561 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 275 Desyrand effectuslie Johne Knox, superintendent of Edinburgh, to admit the same be his subscriptioun manuale in corroboratioun of the superintendence of Glasgw admissioun. c1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 232 The maist pairt of the vniuersitie of Sanctandros convenit with the haill ministeris and superintendence in Edinburgh. 1657 R. Watson Hist. Coll. Eccles. Affairs Sc. 100 If..she [sc. the Queen] suspend him from the exercise of his Superintendence or Over seeing, as they Call it. 1798 T. Coke Doctr. Methodist Episcopal Ch. 48 Here we also see, that there were elders, who had the oversight or superintendence (for so the word signifies) of the flock of God. 1872 J. M'Clintock & J. Strong Cycl. Biblical, Theol., & Eccl. Lit. IV. 408 The Church of the Augsburg Confession (evangelical Lutherans) has four superintendences. 1962 N. B. Harmon Org. Methodist Church 65 (heading) The Methodist Protestant Superintendence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1559 |
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