superinspect

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ inspect. Compare Latin superinspicere, superinspectum.

Verb

superinspect (third-person singular simple present superinspects, present participle superinspecting, simple past and past participle superinspected)

1. (transitive) To oversee; to superintend by inspection.
   • 1691, Henry Maydman, Naval Speculations, AND Maritime Politicks: Being a Modest and Brief DISCOURSE OF THE Royal Navy OF ENGLAND: OF Its Oeconomy and Government, AND A Projection for an everlasting Seminary of Seamen, by a Royal Maritime Hospital.:

     he [the Agent] superinspects the whole Affair of Victualling at that Port , if there be no Commissioner or Riding Surveyor at the place, which in all times of Action extraordinary there should be; and whensoever any one is there

References

• “superinspect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.