intendancyn.
/ɪnˈtɛndənsi/ 1.
a. The office, position, or function of an intendant; a body of intendants.
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society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > superintendent > position of
superintendentship1567
intendancy1598
intendance1740
intendantship1892
society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > intendant > position of
intendancy1598
society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > intendant > body of intendants
intendancy1870
1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques 172 The fourth [of the kinds of governments is]..a perpetuall military intendencie by tribe.
a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 311 Hence we went to Dr. Gibb's..who had some intendency in Christ Hospital [in Rome].
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. xi. 548 Under colour of some Commission of his Intendancy.
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. III. 619 Each..is vested with the intendancy of some interior districts.
1825 T. Carlyle Life Schiller (1872) App. ii. 265 The theatre of that town..owes to him its foundation, and its maintenance through his long Intendancy.
1870 Daily News 27 Sept. The intendancy had orders to proceed to Lagny.
b. figurative. Superintendence.
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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
1727 W. Warburton Crit. & Philos. Enq. Causes Prodigies & Miracles ii. 85 The Atomist Lucretius, whose cold Philosophy had formerly excluded all Intendency of a superior Mind.
2. A district in Spanish America under the control of an intendant (intendente).
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under other specific governors or officials
sergeancy1371
limitation1535
commissionership1625
warnership1636
mairie1650
regency1656
grieveship1711
see land1732
residentship1800
banate1804
intendancy1810
field-cornetcy1826
inspectorate1883
1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) iii. App. 4 The foregoing nine administrations or intendencias, the kingdom of Leon, and the province of Nuevo San Ander..form, as I believe, the whole political government of the vice-roy of Mexico.]
1810 Edinb. Rev. 16 98 The intendancy of Guanaxuato has 568 inhabitants to the square league.
1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xxvi. 395 The silver..was deposited in the provincial treasuries established in the chief places of the intendancies.
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