superinspect

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English

Etymology

From super- +‎ inspect. Compare Latin superinspicere, superinspectum.

Pronunciation

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Verb

superinspect (third-person singular simple present superinspects, present participle superinspecting, simple past and past participle superinspected)

  1. (transitive) To oversee; to superintend by inspection.
    • 1691, Henry Maydman, Naval Speculations, AND Maritime Politicks: Being a Modest and Brief DISCOURSE OF THE Royal Navy OF ENGLAND: OF Its Oeconomy and Government, AND A Projection for an everlasting Seminary of Seamen, by a Royal Maritime Hospital.:
      he [the Agent] superinspects the whole Affair of Victualling at that Port , if there be no Commissioner or Riding Surveyor at the place, which in all times of Action extraordinary there should be; and whensoever any one is there

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