surview
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English survewe, from Old French surveoir, sorveoir (“to look (down) at, look upon, notice; guard, watch”); equivalent to sur- + view.
Pronunciation edit
- (verb) IPA(key): /sə(ɹ)ˈvjuː/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (noun) IPA(key): /ˈsɜː(ɹ)vjuː/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb edit
surview (third-person singular simple present surviews, present participle surviewing, simple past and past participle surviewed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To survey; to make a survey of.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:
- to surview his ground
Noun edit
surview (plural surviews)
- (obsolete) A survey.
- 1619 April 27 (Gregorian calendar), Robert Saunderson [i.e., Robert Sanderson], “[Ad Clerum.] The First Sermon. At a Visitation at Boston, Linc[olnshire] 17. April. 1619.”, in Twelve Sermons, […], [new] edition, London: […] Aug[ustine] Math[ews], for Robert Dawlman, and are to be sold by Robert Allet, […], published 1632, →OCLC, §. 19, page 23:
- But if you vvill pleaſe to take a ſecond ſurvievv of the foure ſeverall particulars, vvherein the Caſes ſeemed to agree; you ſhall find very much diſparitie and diſproportion betvvixt the tvvo Caſes in each of the foure reſpects.