Oversee vs Foresee - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between oversee and foresee

is that oversee is to fail to see; to overlook, ignore while foresee is to provide.

is that oversee is to survey, look at something in a wide angle while foresee is to anticipate; to predict.

(transitive)

(literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.

(figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.

It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.

To inspect, examine

Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.

(obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.

* , II.ix:

Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee .

To observe secretly or unintentionally.

* overseer * oversight

To anticipate; to predict.

* 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter

"I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."

* Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3

A prudent man foreseeth the evil.

(obsolete) To provide.

* Francis Bacon

Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.