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supervene 
over or upon, overtake, < super, above, + 
come : see <.] To come in as extraneous 
upon something; bo added or joined; follow 
in close conjunction. 
The dawning of the day is not materially turned Into supervisorship (su-per-vi'zor-ship), . 
Where there are several supervisors or trustees in the 
township, It Is common to associate them together as a 
Board, and under suih an arrangement they very closely 
resemble the New England board of selectmen in then- 
administrative functions. W. Wilton, State, f 1014. 
[< .XII. 
the greater light at noon ; but a greater light supereenttk. ,/crrisor + -ship.'] The office of a supervisor. 
Baxter, .Saints' Rest, Iv., To the Reader. gggjjij.BJ (su-per-vi'zo-ri), O. [< supervise + 
les sank into nothingness ; their flames ^ >r u.'\ Pertaining to or 'having supervision. 
: (he Mackness of darkness supervened 
The trill ean.ll 
went out utterly ; 
Pot, Tales, I. 811. 
supervenient (su-per-ve'uient), a. [= Sp. Pg. 
It. SII/K r nil-nil , < \j. xi<i>rrrenien(t-)8, ppr.of - 
jurriiiiri', come upon: soe supervene.] Coming 
in upon something as additional or extraneous ; 
superadvenieut; added; additional; following 
in close conjunction. 
The Senate, in addition to Its legislative, Is Tested also 
with supervisory powers In respect to treaties and ap- 
pointment*. Calhaun, Works, 1. 180. 
upervisual (su-ptr-viz/u-al), a. [< L. super, 
over, + tisus, seeing, sight: see visual.] Ex- 
ceeding the ordinary visual powers. 
Such an abnormally acute supervisual perception Is by 
no means impossible. The Academy, July 12, 1890, p. 28. 
upon : 
dition of supervening. 
The grave symptoms . . . were undoubtedly caused by 
the supervention of blood poison, originating from the 
wound. J. X. Carnochan, Operative Surgery, p. 142. 
supervisal (su-per-vi'zal), n. [< supercise + 
-at.] The act of supervising; overseeing; in- 
spection; superintendence. 
Ollders, Carvers, upholsterers, and picture-cleaners are 
labouring at their several forges, and I do not love to 
trust a hummer or a brush without my own supervisal. 
Walpole, To George Montagu, July 1, 1763. 
supervise (su-per-viz'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. su- 
riilere, pp. risus, see : see vision.'] 1. To over- 
see; have charge of, with authority to direct 
or regulate: as, to supervise the erection of a 
house. The word often implies a more general care, 
with less attention to and direction of details, than super- 
intend. 
The small time I ttipenutd the Glass-house. I got among 
those Venetians some Smatterings of the Italian Tongue 
supervolu.- 
rolutus, pp. of supervolvere, roll over, < L. super, 
above, -r volvere, roll, turn about.] In oof., 
noting a form of estivation in which the plaits 
of a gamopetalous corolla successively overlap 
one another, as in the morning-glory, jimson- 
weed, etc. : same as convolute except that the 
latter refers to petals instead of plaits ; also, of 
a leaf, same as convolute. 
supervolutive (su'per-vo-lu'tiv), a. [< super- 
volute + -ice.] In bot., noting an estivation in 
which the plaits of a corolla or a vernation in 
which the leaves are supervolute. [Bare.] 
supinate (su'pi-nat), r. /. ; pret. and pp. supi- 
nated, ppr. supinating. [< L. sujtinatus, pp. of 
supinare, bend or lay backward or on the oack, 
< supinus, lying on the back : see supine. 1 In 
anat. and physiol., to bring (the hand) palm up- 
ward. In this position the radius and ulna are 
parallel. See pronate. 
The hand was pronated, and could not be supinated be- 
yond the midway position. Lancet, 1890, 1. 464. 
Howlt, Letters, I. L 3. supination (gfi-pi-na'shon), n. [= F. supination 
2t. To look over so as to peruse; read; read _ g p _ au pi nae ion = It. gupinazione, < LL. supi- 
natio(n-), < supinare, bend or lay backward or 
on the back: see supinate.'] 1. The act of ly- 
ing or the state of being laid on the back, or 
face upward. 2. In anat. and physiol. : (a) A 
movement of the forearm and hand of man and 
some other animals which brings the palm of 
the hand uppermost and the radius and ulna 
parallel with each other, instead of crossing 
each other as in the opposite movement of pro- 
nation. (6) The position of the forearm and 
hand in which the ulna and radius lie parallel, 
not crossed, and the hand lies flat on its back, 
palm upward: the opposite of pronation. The 
act is accomplished and the position is assumed 
by means of the supinators, aided by the biceps. 
3. lu fencing, the position of the wrist when 
the palm of the hand is turned upward. Rolando 
(ed. Forsyth). 
over. 
You find not the apostrophas, and so miss the accent ; 
let me supervise the canzonet Shale., L. L. L., Iv. 2. 124. 
Syn. 1. See list under superintend. 
supervise! (su-per-viz ),. [< supervise, v.] In- 
spection On the supervise, at sight; on the first 
reading. 
Importing Denmark's health and England's too, 
With, ho ! such bugs and goblins In my life 
That, o the supermte, no leisure bated. 
SlMk., Hamlet, v. i. 23. 
supervision (su-per-vizh'on), . [< ML. *sit- 
pervisio(n-), < supervidere, pp. supervisus, over- 
see: see supervise.] The act of supervising or 
overseeing; oversight; superintendence; di- 
rection: as, to have the supervision of a coal- 
mine; police supervision. =ByjL. See list under su- 
perintendence. 
supervisor (su-per-vi'zor), . [< ME. 
super- , . . 
vfsor, < ML. supervisor,'!, superi-idere, pp. super- supinator (su'pi-na-tor),M.; pi. supuia tores (su- 
rinitK, supervise: see supervise.] 1. One who pi-na-to'rez) or supinators (su'pi-na-torz). 
supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a super- [NL.', < L. supinare, pp. supinatus, bend or lay 
intendent: as, the supervisor of a coal-mine ; a backward: see supinate.'] A muscle which su- 
....... n tf t i. . . . i' t 1... ninnfaa fViA ff\1*aOTfm * itnrulQa/? tit liffiilflf/tt' * :!. 
supervisor of the customs or of the excise. 
I desire and pray yon . . . make a substanciall bille in 
my name upon the said mater, . . . the said bille to be 
put up to the Kyng, whiche is chief supervisor of my said 
l.onlis testament, and to the Lordes Spirituelle and Tem- 
porelle. as to the Comyns, of this present Parlemeut, so 
as the iij. astatcs may grannie and passe hem cleerly. 
Ponton Letters, I. 372. 
Your English gangers and supervisors that you hare 
sent dowu benorth the Tweed have ta'eu up the trade of 
thievery. Scott, Rob Roy, iv. 
The twelve Supervisors of Estates [at Ludlow] are elected 
in the same manner I by the thirty-seven, or common coun- 
cil >it large]. . . . Their business is to attend to the let- 
ting and management of the corporation estates. 
Municip. Corp. Report (1835), p. 2790. 
2f. A spectator ; a looker-on. 
Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on? 
Shak., Othello, ill. 3. 39S. 
3t. One who reads over, as for correction. 
The author and supervisor!! of this pamphlet. Dryden. 
4. In some of the United States, an elected 
officer of a township or town having principal 
c'harge of its administrative business. The affairs 
of a township are managed in some States by a board of 
supervisors, in some by a single supervisor ; in the latter 
case, the supervisor of the town is only one of a number 
of town officers, but his concurrent action with one or 
more of the others is often required, and the supervisors 
of all the townships In a county constitute together the 
county hoard, charged with the administrative business 
of the county. 
pinates the forearm: opposed to pronator: 
the biceps is a powerful supinator of the fore- 
arm. supinator brevls, a muscle at the proximal end 
of the forearm. It arises from the ulna and: lateral liga- 
ments of the elbow, and Is wrapped around the radius 
and inserted upon its outer side. Supinator longus, a 
flexor and supinator muscle of the forearm, lying super 
flclally along the radial side of the forearm. It arises 
chiefly from the external supracondylar ridge of the hu- 
nierus, and is inserted into the styloid process of the ra- 
dius. Also called brachinradialis. See cut under mtttclt' . 
Supinator radii brevls. Same as supinator brevii. 
Supinator radii longus. Same as supinator longus. 
Supinator ridge of the humerua, the ectocondylar 
ridge, a ridge running up from the outer condyle, giving 
attachment to the supinator longus and other muscles, 
mpine, a. and n. [= Sp. Pg. It.supino, < L. su- 
pinus, turned or thrown backward, lying on the 
back, prostrate, also going backward, retro- 
grade, going downward, sloping, inclined; figur- 
atively, inactive, negligent, careless, indolent ; 
neut. supinum, sc. vcrbum, applied in LL. to the 
verbal noun in -turn, -tu (the supine), and also to 
the verbal form in -ndttm (the gerund), lit. ' the 
absolute verb' that is, a verbal form with- 
out distinctions of voice, number, person, and 
tense sttpinum, lit. 'inactive,' hence neutral, 
absolute, translating Gr. BCTIKOV as applied to 
the verbal form in -rtav, called iitlppriua OerixAv, 
lit. 'the absolute adverb,' or verbal adjunct 
(OrriKov, neut. of flrn/coc, in gram, positive, ab- 
solute); < sab, under, beneath: see &-.] I. n. 
suppeditate 
(su-pin'). 1. Lying on the back, or with the 
t'aec upward: opposed to prom-. 
That they burled their dead on their backs, or In a 
supine position, seems agreeable unto profound sleep and 
common posture of dying. Sir T. Browne, Cm-burial, Iv. 
Supperless to bed they must n 
And couch supine their beauties, lily white. 
Kealt, Eve of St. .Agnes, St. 8. 
2. Leaning backward; inclined; sloping: sai>l 
of localities. 
If the vine 
On rising ground be plac'd, or hills supine, 
Extend thy loose battalions. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, II. 873. 
3. Negligent; listless; heedless; indolent; 
thoughtless; inattentive; careless. 
The Spaniards were so supine and unexercls'd that they 
were afraid to fire a great* gun. 
Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 20, 1674. 
Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, 
Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine-. 
Addison, The Greatest English Poets. 
Milton . . . stands out In marked and solitary Individ- 
uality, apart from the great movement of the Civil War, 
apart from the lupine acquiescence of the Restoration, a 
self-opinionated, unforgiving, and unforgettlng man. 
Lotceli, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 276. 
4. In bot., lying flat with the face upward, an 
sometimes a thallus or leaf. =8yn. 1. Prone, etc. 
See prostrate. 3. Carelest, Indolent, etc. (see listless), inert, 
sliiKKlsh, languid, dull, torpid. 
II. H. (su'pin). A part of the Latin verb, 
really a verbal noun, similar to the English 
verbals in -ing, with two cases. One of these, usu- 
ally called the first supine, ends In urn, and is the accusa- 
tive case. It always follows a verb of motion : as, abiit 
deambulatum, he has gone to walk, or he has gone a-walk- 
Ing. The other, called the second supine, ends In u of the 
ablative case, and Is governed by substantives or adjec- 
tives : as, facile dietu, easy to be told (literally, easy In 
the telling). 
supinet (su-pin'), adr. [< supine, a.] Supinely. 
So supine negligent are they, or perhaps so wise, as of 
passed evllls to endeavour a forgetfulnesse. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 27. 
supinely (su-pin'li), adv. In a supine manner. 
(a) With the face upward ; on one's or its back. 
And spreading plane-trees, where, supinely laid, 
He now enjoys the cool, and quails beneath the shade. 
Additon, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 
(6) Carelessly ; indolently ; listlessly ; drowsily ; In a 
heedless or thoughtless way. 
In Idle wishes fools supinely stay. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 201. 
supineness (su-pin'nes), w. The state or con- 
dition of being supine, in any sense. 
supinityt (su-pin'i-ti), n. [< L. supinita(t-)s, a 
bending backward, a lying flat, < siipinus: see 
supine.] Supineness. 
A tvpiniti/ or neglect of enquiry. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., i. 5. 
suppaget (sup'aj). . [< sup + -age; cf. herbage, 
pottage.] That which may be supped; sea- 
soning (f). 
For food they had bread, for suppage, salt, and for sauce, 
herbs. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 72. 
SUppalpationt (sup-al-pa'shpn), H. [< L. stip- 
palpari, caress, fondle a little, < sub, under, + 
palpari, touch, stroke : see palpation.] The act 
of enticing by caresses or soft words. 
If plausible suppalpatinns, If restless Importunities, will 
hoise thee, thou wilt mount. 
Bp. Hall, Sermon on Ps. cvii. 34. 
supparasitationt (su-par'a-si-ta'shon), w. [< 
supparasite + -ation.] The act of flattering 
merely to gain favor. 
In time truth shall consume hatred ; and at last a gall- 
ing truth shall have more thanks than a smoothing sup- 
paratitaKm. Bp. Hall, Best Bargain, Works, V. x. 
supparasitef (su-par'a-sit), r. t. [< L. supparu- 
sitari, flatter a little, <; sub, under, + parasitari. 
play the parasite, < parasitus, a parasite: see 
parasite.'] To flatter; cajole. 
See how this subtile cunning sophister rupparasites the 
people ; that's ambition's fashion too, ever to be popular. 
Dr. Clarice, Semions (1637), p. 245. (Latham. ) 
suppawn, . See supawn. 
suppedaneoust (sup-e-da'ne-us), . 
[< LL. 
ing under the feet. Sir T. Browne, Vnlg. Err., 
v. 13. 
suppedaneum (sup-e-da'ue-um), n. [LL. : see 
Kiippedaneous.] A projection or support under 
the feet of a person crucified : used with special 
reference to Christ or a crucifix. Encyc. Brit., 
VI. 611. 
suppeditatet (su-ped'i-tat), r. t. [< L. suppedi- 
tatm, pp. of suppeditare, subpeditare, be fully 
supplied, be in store, trans, supply, furnish, per- 
haps for 'suppftittire, < suppetere, subpetere, be 
