1. To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a
steam engine, or the printing of a book.
2. To look over so as to read; to peruse. [Obs.] Shak.
Syn. — See Superintend.
Supervise
(Su`per*vise"), n. Supervision; inspection. [Obs.]
Supervision
(Su`per*vi"sion) n. The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.
Supervisive
(Su`per*vi"sive) a. Supervisory. [R.]
Supervisor
(Su`per*vis"or) n.
1. One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.
2. A spectator; a looker-on. [Obs.] Shak.
Supervisory
(Su`per*vi"so*ry) a. Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.
Supervive
(Su`per*vive") v. t. [L. supervivere. See Survive.] To survive; to outlive. [Obs.]
Supervolute
(Su`per*vo*lute") a. [L. supervolutus, p. p. of supervolvere to roll over; super over + volvere
to roll.] (Bot.) Having a plainted and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning- glory.
Supination
(Su`pi*na"tion) n. [L. supinare, supinatum, to bend or lay backward, fr. supinus supine: cf.
F. supination. See Supine.] (Physiol.) (a) The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of
the hand with the palm upward. (b) The act or state of lying with the face upward. Opposed to pronation.
Supinator
(Su`pi*na"tor) n. [NL.] (Anat.) A muscle which produces the motion of supination.
Supine
(Su*pine") a. [L. supinus, akin to sub under, super above. Cf. Sub-, Super-.]
1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; — opposed to prone.
2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined.
If the vine
On rising ground be placed, or hills supine.
Dryden. 3. Negligent; heedless; indolent; listless.
He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation.
Woodward. Syn. — Negligent; heedless; indolent; thoughtless; inattentive; listless; careless; drowsy.
— Su*pine"ly, adv. — Su*pine"ness, n.
Supine
(Su"pine) n. [L. supinum (sc. verbum), from supinus bent or thrown backward, perhaps so
called because, although furnished with substantive case endings, it rests or falls back, as it were, on
the verb: cf. F. supin.] (Lat. Gram.) A verbal noun; or a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -
u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine.
Supinity
(Su*pin"i*ty) n. [L. supinitas.] Supineness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Suppage
(Sup"page) n. [From Sup.] What may be supped; pottage. [Obs.] Hooker.
