overeye

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ eye.

Verb

overeye (third-person singular simple present overeyes, present participle overeyeing or overeying, simple past and past participle overeyed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To superintend; inspect; observe; witness.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Like a demigod here sit I in the sky / And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'ereye.