supertend

English

Verb

supertend (third-person singular simple present supertends, present participle supertending, simple past and past participle supertended)

1. Misspelling of superintend.
   • 1777, Greene, Nathanael, Letter of George Washington‎^[1]:

     I sent forward one of my Aids to Burlington early this morning to supertend the embarkation of the troops and baggage.

   • 1866, Thompson, George Western, 1806-1888, The living forces of the universe ..‎^[2]:

     […] opinions, notions, intuitions, and ideations, attaining the Divine Ideas and the Proleptic Morality, indicating a Creator coördinated in an Immutable Morality, to which all these supertend, there is an egressus, a going forth of the Self, and there is a gradus, an ascent as stated by the philosophic Hermes.

   • 1954 April 22, East Liverpool Review (1954-04-22)‎^[3]:

     Center and Butler Townships will supertend the drive in their own areas.

   • 2005, Richard O'donnell, Rebecca W Dolan, A NEW SPECIES OF STREPTANTHUS (BRASSICACEAE) FROM THREE PEAKS IN LAKE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA‎^[4]:

     Some degree of autogamy is indicated by the enclosure of the two pairs of fertile stamens within the calyx, supertending the short post-like stigma.