Forms: 5 surveu, 5–6 -vewe, 5–7 -vew, 6 -viewe, 6– surview. [a. AF., OF. surveu(e, f. surveer to SURVEY; cf. view.]
† 1. Inspection: = SURVEY sb. 1. Obs.
1432. Rolls of Parlt., IV. 406/1. Yat no Vessell of wyn pas fro the place of thair makyng,… on lesse yat it be … marked … be a knowe signe … of the saide persones yat are assigned to ye survewe and ye assay therof.
1472–5. [see SURVEY v. 1].
† 2. Supervision; = SURVEY sb. 2. Obs.
c. 1421. Proc. Privy Council, II. 366. It be ordeinede whenne yat any souldeours deye … yat he yat shall be taken in his stede be receyved be ye survewe of ye tresourer.
1431. E. E. Wills (1882), 99. I woll that sir Nicholl Dixon … have the suruewe of my … Executours.
3. A view (esp. mental) of something as a whole, or in its details; the action of taking such a view; consideration, contemplation; = SURVEY sb. 3, 4. Now rare or arch.
1576. Fleming, trans. Caius’ Dogs (1880), 42. Leauing the seruiewe of hunting and hauking dogs.
1579. G. Harvey, Lett. to Spenser, S.’s Wks. (1912), 640/2. Vppon the suruiewe of them, and farther conference.
1611. J. Cartwright (title), The Preachers Travels…. Containing a full suruew of the Kingdom of Persia.
1619. Sanderson, Serm. (1657), I. 14. If you will please to take a second surview of the four severall particulars, wherein the Cases seemed to agree.
1633. Heywood, Eng. Trav., IV. Wks. 1874, IV. 63. Your seruant tels me, you haue great desire To take suruiew of this my house within.
1710. Now or Never, 13. I shall take a short Surview, and then put an End to your Lordship’s trouble.
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., xviii. (1882), 172. That prospectiveness of mind, that surview, which enables a man to foresee the whole of what he is to convey.
1889. Browning, Asolando, Reverie, x. Mind, in surview of things, Now soared, anon alit, To treasure its gatherings.
1903. Records of Elgin (New Spalding Cl.), I. 7. To take a calm surview of the whole case.
† 4. concr. = SURVEY sb. 1 b. Obs.
1570–6. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), 191. In the auncient rentals and surviewes of the possessions of Christes Church in Canterburie.
