sb. and a. Obs. Also 8 -ant. [ad. F. surintendant: see SUR- and INTENDANT.] = SUPERINTENDENT sb. and a.
1663. Gerbier, Counsel, a 4. Your Surintendents of Buildings.
1690. Temple, Ess., Heroic Virtue, ii. Wks. 1720, I. 203. A Surintendant, sent more immediately from Court to inspect the Course of Affairs.
1709. Mrs. Manley, Secret Mem. (1720), III. 165. Another Sur-Intendant of the royal Revenue.
a. 1721. Prior, Dial. betw. Charles & Clenard, Wks. 1907, II. 216. The Surintendants and Customers that keep the Register.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett., I. xxxv. (1650), 57. There is a surintendent Counsell of ten.
So † Surintendence (only in Fr. form -ance). † Surintendency = SUPERINTENDENCE, -ENCY.
1650. Cowley, Lett., 28 May, Wks. (Grosart), II. 347. In this distress of the Finances Monsieur Demery is dead, and Monsieur D’avaux, who was joined with him in the Surintendency has quitted the Charge.
1692. C. O’K[elly], Macariæ Excidium, in Narratives Contests Irel. (Camden), 77. The surintendency of all affairs, both civil and military.
1744. Lady M. W. Montagu, Lett. to W. Montagu, 12 June. The surintendance of all public diversions.
