Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who superintends, or who exercises oversight; a superintendent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A superintendent.

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  • noun dated A superintendent.

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Examples

  • Book of Norture was written by him, and that either the Epilogue to it was a fiction of his, or was written by the superintender of the particular copy in the Harleian MS.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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