| 释义 |
surveyance rare.|səˈveɪəns|
Also 5 surve(i)aunce, 6 surveyaunce.
[a. OF. *surve(i)ance, f. surveeir to survey. In mod. use directly f. survey v. + -ance.]
Survey; superintendence, oversight; inspection.
(Sometimes app. confused with surveillance.)
c1386Chaucer Doctor's T. 95 (Ellesm.) Youre is the charge of al hir surueiaunce [Hengw. surueaunce; other MSS. sufferaunce, suffra(u)nce] Whil þat they been vnder youre gouernaunce. c1520Skelton Magnyf. (1906) 1787 In Pleasure and Surueyaunce..I haue set my hole Felycyte. 1531Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 18 §1 Within .xl daies after suche surveiaunce made and monycion to the said owners gyven. 1597Middleton Wisd. Solomon To Gentl. Rdrs. B j, I giue you the surueyaunce of my new-bought grounde.
1880Times 19 Aug. 4 We must expect to find such objects in the excavations if proper surveyance of the workmen be exercised. 1883American VI. 118 The price of lands reduced to a sum which would pay the expenses of surveyance and sale. |