Verb

(supervis)

To direct, manage, or oversee; to be in charge

*, chapter=19

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}

(obsolete) To look over so as to read; to peruse.

* 1590 , , IV. ii. 120:

Let me supervise the canzonet.

Verb

(en verb)

To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.

(Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).

* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 35:

Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.

To assure the accuracy of previous statements.