superintend
/ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈtɛnd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To administer the affairs of something or someone.
Example Sentences
- "Lady Marchmont had superintended her toilette, and it was the very triumph of exquisite taste; every thing about it seemed as fragile and delicate as herself."
- "The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible."
- "Herb Abbott, the foreman, who superintended the whole operation and filled in wherever he was needed."
- "A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York Street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse."
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin superintendō.