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superintended

superintended is the simple past and past participle of superintend.

Meaning of superintend

Verb

superintend (third-person singular simple present superintends, present participle superintending, simple past and past participle superintended)

  1. To oversee the work of others; to supervise.
    • Lady Marchmont had superintended her toilette, and it was the very triumph of exquisite taste; every thing about it seemed as fragile and delicate as herself.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XVIII. The Fête.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 137
  2. To administer the affairs of something or someone.
    • 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...1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 294

Questions about superintended

What is superintended the simple past and past participle of?
Superintended is the simple past and past participle of superintend.

Words near superintended in the dictionary

  1. superintelligence
  2. superintelligences
  3. superintelligent
  4. superintend
  5. superintendant
  6. superintended
  7. superintendence
  8. superintendences
  9. superintendencies
  10. superintendency
  11. superintendent

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