Now rare. [f. med.L. supervīs-, pa. ppl. stem of supervidēre: see prec. and -AL 5.]
1. = SUPERVISION 1.
1652. Evelyn, State France, Misc. Writ. (1805), 60. The High Chamberlain of France … hath the supervisall … of all officers of the King’s bedchamber.
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1717), IV. 389. The Regulation and Supervisal of the whole Course of a Man’s Life.
1763. H. Walpole, Lett. to G. Montagu, 1 July. I do not love to trust a hammer or a brush without my own supervisal.
1826. Examiner, 488/1. The new buildings are from the designs of different Architects, but subject … to the supervisal of … Mr. Nash.
1839. Carlyle, Chartism, iii. 123. Supervisal by the central government.
2. = SUPERVISION 2.
1749. H. Walpole, Lett. to Mann, 17 May. The supervisal of it [sc. the Life of the first Duke of Marlborough].
1751. Warburton, in Pope’s Wks., IV. 42, note. A paper wherein he never had the least hand, direction or supervisal.
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., III. 590. [Congresses] annually held for the supervisal of the accounts of the bailiages.
