Obs. Also 6 -our. [ad. med.L. suprāvīsor: cf. prec.] = SUPERVISOR 1, 1 b, c, 3.
1566. Gascoigne, Supposes, V. ii. I make thee supra visour of this supper.
1609. W. M., Man in Moone (Percy Soc.), 2. What false orthographie escapeth in the print, impute to the hast of the supravisor of the proofes.
1614. in Trans. Cumbld. & Westmld. Archaeol. Soc., III. 116. To take panes as supravisors to see the performinge of all things accordinge to this my will and testament.
1653. Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, I. xxiii. 297. They made Aræus titular [admiral] and Lysander supravisor of him.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. Heb. xiii. 17, Wks. 1686, III. 270. The Curators, or Supravisors of the Church.
1694. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1883), I. 320. The Supravisrs of the Highway.
