Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc.
Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.
Exercising prudence; discretionary; advisory; superintendingor executive; as, a prudential committee.
She is always telling how in her day men would work hard all day "superintending the farms"--and then at night ride twenty miles on horseback, to just talk for an hour to some girl of no special attractions!
In these trying circumstances, the chief engineer accepted an offer made by the gentlemen in the ship, to take turn about in superintending the men at work in the tank paying-out the cable.
Then two boats full of cable-hands, and an official gig pulled by a Chinaman, while the steam-launch Electric kept buzzing about as if superintending all.
We know that Borrow was in Norwich in 1826, for we have seen him superintending the publication of the Romantic Ballads by subscription in that year.
Meanwhile those five thousand copies of the New Testament were a-printing, Borrow superintending the work with the assistance of a new friend, Dr.
This state of repose was disturbed by the superintending care of Parliament.
The cost of the Government staff for superintending the issuing of relief, is set down at two and a half per cent.
The Duc de Beaufort was everywhere, superintending the embarkation with the zeal and interest of a good captain.
Well, this Destouches appeared to me to be a man likely to prove useful in marine affairs, and he is superintending the construction of six vessels of seventy-eight guns, which the Provinces are building for his majesty.
The building of it became his hobby, and his greatest delight was in superintending its progress.
A genteel-looking young woman, who wassuperintending the operation, stood her ground, but with some timidity.
He spent the greater part of the afternoon superintending the stowage of the wood and did not go back to the Harbor at all.
Sears had been busy all the forenoon superintending the carting in and stowing of the Fair Harbor share of oak and pine from the wood-lot.
His wife would be superintending the preparation of breakfast.
She was at length restlessly superintendingthe laying of lunch when Joe hurried in with the news that a baas was waiting on the stoep round the corner to see her.
They were three in number, in jackets of resplendent whiteness, superintending the roasting of chickens impaled on a huge spit, stirring the gravies and sauces in copper vessels that shone like gold.
During all these troubles and trials Taoukwang endeavored to play the part of a beneficent and merciful sovereign, tempering the severity of the laws by acts of clemency, and personally superintending every department of the administration.
It was an insult to them to suppose that Mr. Hassler was the only man in the country capable of superintending this work; and that they could not carry on the survey of our coast by triangulation.
But Cardailhac was too busy superintendingthe order and the progress of the procession to give way to the least emotion, which would, besides, have been foreign to his nature.
Major-General Brock is at present at Newark, superintending the various defences on the river.
This officer was at this time at Black Rock, superintending the equipment of some schooners, lately purchased for the service of Lake Erie.
The glade was lighted up by a fire, that one of the Rancheros had kindled, and beside which he stood, superintending the cooking of the supper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superintending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
