rare. Also 5 surve(i)aunce, 6 surveyaunce. [a. OF. *surve(i)ance, f. surveeir to SURVEY. In mod. use directly f. SURVEY v. + -ANCE.] Survey; superintendence, oversight; inspection.
(Sometimes app. confused with SURVEILLANCE.)
c. 1386. Chaucer, Doctor’s T., 95 (Ellesm.). Youre is the charge of al hir surueiaunce [Hengw. surueaunce; other MSS. sufferaunce, suffra(u)nce] Whil þat they been vnder youre gouernaunce.
c. 1520. Skelton, Magnyf. (1906), 1787. In Pleasure and Surueyaunce … I haue set my hole Felycyte.
1531. Act 23 Hen. VIII., c. 18 § 1. Within .xl daies after suche surveiaunce made and monycion to the said owners gyven.
1597. Middleton, Wisd. Solomon, To Gentl. Rdrs. B j. I giue you the surueyaunce of my new-bought grounde.
1880. Times, 19 Aug., 4/5. We must expect to find such objects in the excavations if proper surveyance of the workmen be exercised.
1883. American, VI. 118. The newer States wished to see the price of lands reduced to a sum which would pay the expenses of surveyance and sale.
