[f. prec. + -SHIP.] The office of a supervisor. Also, contextually, the function of a supervisor; a body of supervisors.
1485. Rolls of Parlt., VI. 349/1. Th’ office of Supervisorship of oure Werkys.
1643. Three Lett., 18. Did we ever think it possible both Houses should ever pretend to such a supervisorship over that trust?
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., p. cv. The abuses done to those Rivers, may well call for the Supervisorship of some particular Person or Persons.
1772. Burke, Lett. to W. Dowdeswell, 7 Nov. He offered me the first place in a supervisorship of three.
1783. W. F. Martyn, Geog. Mag., II. 107. The supervisorship of fourteen grammar-schools.
1895. W. Wallace, in Chamb. Jrnl., XII. 817/1. That January which, had the poet-exciseman [Burns] lived, would have witnessed his promotion to a supervisorship.
