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Superintend vs Overeye - What's the difference?

superintend | overeye |

As verbs the difference between superintend and overeye

is that superintend is to oversee the work of others; to supervise while overeye is (obsolete) to superintend; inspect; observe; witness.

superintend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To oversee the work of others; to supervise.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
  • To administer the affairs of something or someone.
  • * Episode 12, The Cyclops
  • *:A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.

    • Related terms

    * superintendence

    overeye

    English

    Verb

    (overey)
  • (obsolete) To superintend; inspect; observe; witness.
    • Like a demigod here sit I in the sky / And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'ereye . ? Shakespeare.