单词 | superintender |
释义 | superintendern. Now rare. = superintendent n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > superintendent architector1461 earl1483 overlookera1513 superior1554 superintender1573 superintendent1603 surintendent1645 epistates1651 intendant1652 referee1705 supercargo1713 surveillant1819 super1849 supe1908 1573–4 in Trans. E. Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalists' Soc. (1958) 7 77 Item for berin of ane wryttin to Cauder to superintender. 1675 R. Ferguson Interest of Reason in Relig. i. 52 A Supreme, Wise, Superintender of all things. 1776 J. Burrow Rep. Court King's Bench 4 2291 A Superintender of Salt-works. 1834 W. Whewell Astron. & Gen. Physics (ed. 4) 252 Our relation to the Superintender of our moral being..is a relation of incalculable consequence. 1893 Sc. Leader 20 Feb. 5 The Town and County Councils, who are to appoint the registration superintenders. 1917 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 351/2 Cap'n Jim was battin' his eyes... ‘Gosh, colonel!’ he says, ‘a superintender—me!’. 1998 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 6 Jan. e2 (caption) Building superintender Midge Carter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1573 |
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