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  • noun obsolete See intendant, n.

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  • noun Obsolete form of intendant.

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Examples

  • August 10th, 2010 at 8:47 am vice super-intendent of the fannin county school district. good guy. second marriage. keeps pretty much to himself.

    spam name | clusterflock 2010

  • Lady in the Water Directed by M. Night ShyamalanThis batty New Age "bedtime story" is all about a "narf" (Bryce Dallas Howard), a mythological water nymph from the Blue World who's discovered in the pool of an apartment complex by its sad-sack super-intendent (Paul Giamatti).

    Snap Judgment: Movies 2007

  • You don ` t know what ` s in them, but you have a hunch, because you have looked in the catalogue that they might be, let us say, the correspondence of the intendent from somewhere in the South Marseilles, with the minister of the king ` s household at a time when there ` s some foul play in the king ` s household that might concern someone from Marseilles.

    George Washington�s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century 2003

  • Sentence pronounced by Pontius Pilate, intendent of the lower province of Galilee, that Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer death by the cross.

    The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens

  • Pontius Pilate, intendent of the Province of Lower Galilee, sitting to judgment in the presidential seat of the Praetors, sentences Jesus of

    The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens

  • _Burman, qui et_ plena atria _coniecit_ templaque Tarpeiae primum tibi sedis adiri et fieri faciles in tua uota deos, 30 colla boues niueos certae praebere securi, quos aluit campis herba Falisca suis, cumque deos omnes, tum quos impensius aequos esse tibi cupias, cum Ioue Caesar erunt. curia te excipiet, patresque e more uocati 35 intendent aures ad tua uerba suas. hos ubi facundo tua uox hilarauerit ore, utque solet tulerit prospera uerba dies,

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • So for two hours they sat, hand in hand, as in their childhood, and he heard of her father's moderate success as an editorial writer after he came West when she was nine, of their comfortable home in Detroit, how well she had done in school, of her early ability as a teacher, of her election as super-intendent of the

    Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll

  • At iv 36 _B_ and _C_ have _intendunt_ for the correct _intendent_, at viii 6 _uolo_ for _uoco_, at viii 18

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Peter E. Smith was an ingenious Civil Engineer, and Super-intendent of the building of the Ram Albemarle.

    History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

  • This building is used for the Super-intendent's home.

    Colored Orphan Asylum of North Carolina, Oxford, N.C. N.C. Oxford 1900

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