supervize

present singular third person supervizes · participle present supervizing · participle past supervized · past supervized

1. nonstandardobsoleteObsolete spelling of supervise.

   The Commission has the power and duty to supervize and direct execution and enforcement of mining laws and employ mine inspectors.

   2002, International Business Series, Volumes 6-7, Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, page 1

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   I venture to maintain that an architect who does not, himself, at least control, regulate and supervize the Quantities, and measure bills relating to the works carried out by him, leaves one end—or say a corner—of his employer's purse not duly guarded.

   1881, Royal Institute of British Architects, Transactions, The Institute, page 250

   The Local Government Board undertook to supervize all expenditure, and to send down officers to inspect the cottages before the money was paid.

   1888, Great Britain. Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, T.C. Hansard, page 1195

   We will here predict that public hygiene will be so far perfected that all food and drink offered for public sale must bear evidence of having received the sanction of trained hygienic officers; that these officers will supervize all buildings, both private and public, as to ventillation, lighting, heating, over-crowding, etc.; that the same control will extend to public conveyances; that sanitarians will supervize the water supply, gas supply, drainage, and the surface condition of streets, roads, alleys, walks, etc., will relate not only to cleanliness, but dust also, for outside air can be made unfit for breathing as well as inside air.

   1900, The Medical World, Volume 18, Roy Jackson., page 1

   Two pairs of magistrates were elected from the ordo, one pair to be in charge of justice in the town and the other pair to supervize public buildings and facilities.

   2005, Katharine Wiltshire, The Pocket Timeline of Ancient Rome, Oxford University Press, page 18

   The mission of the agency is to supervize and license these health care products and services, ensuring that patients and consumers (a) are properly informed and (b) are not exposed to undeclared or unreasonable risks.

   2008, Roger Brownsword, Rights, regulation, and the technological revolution, Oxford University Press, page 141