supervize

supervize (third-person singular simple present supervizes, present participle supervizing, simple past and past participle supervized)

1. Uncommon spelling of supervise.
   • 1881, Royal Institute of British Architects, Transactions, The Institute, page 250:

     I venture to maintain that an architect who does not, himself, at least control, regulate and supervize the Quantities, and measure bills relating to the works carried out by him, leaves one end—or say a corner—of his employer's purse not duly guarded.

   • 1888, Great Britain. Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, T.C. Hansard, page 1195:

     The Local Government Board undertook to supervize all expenditure, and to send down officers to inspect the cottages before the money was paid.

   • 1900, The Medical World, Volume 18, Roy Jackson., page 1:

     We will here predict that public hygiene will be so far perfected that all food and drink offered for public sale must bear evidence of having received the sanction of trained hygienic officers; that these officers will supervize all buildings, both private and public, as to ventillation, lighting, heating, over-crowding, etc.; that the same control will extend to public conveyances; that sanitarians will supervize the water supply, gas supply, drainage, and the surface condition of streets, roads, alleys, walks, etc., will relate not only to cleanliness, but dust also, for outside air can be made unfit for breathing as well as inside air.

   • 2002, International Business Series, Volumes 6-7, Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, page 1:

     The Commission has the power and duty to supervize and direct execution and enforcement of mining laws and employ mine inspectors.

   • 2005, Katharine Wiltshire, The Pocket Timeline of Ancient Rome, Oxford University Press, page 18:

     Two pairs of magistrates were elected from the ordo, one pair to be in charge of justice in the town and the other pair to supervize public buildings and facilities.

   • 2008, Roger Brownsword, Rights, regulation, and the technological revolution, Oxford University Press, page 141:

     The mission of the agency is to supervize and license these health care products and services, ensuring that patients and consumers (a) are properly informed and (b) are not exposed to undeclared or unreasonable risks.

   • 2010, Nursing Research Methods, Volume 2, Sage, page 239:

     Her story indicates distress on her part that she will be unable to support and supervize nurses on the other ward as she does not know their levels of competence.