Verb

(vigilat)

(obsolete, or, nonstandard) to monitor, watch over, control

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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.