surview meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology and quotations

surview

verb

/sə(ɹ)ˈvjuː/

Etymology From Middle English survewe, from Old French surveoir, sorveoir (“to look (down) at, look upon, notice; guard, watch”); equivalent to sur- + view.

Obsolete To survey; to make a survey of.

to surview his ground1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:

surview

noun

/ˈsɜː(ɹ)vjuː/

Etymology From Middle English survewe, from Old French surveoir, sorveoir (“to look (down) at, look upon, notice; guard, watch”); equivalent to sur- + view.

Obsolete A survey.

But if you vvill pleaſe to take a ſecond ſurvievv of the foure ſeverall particulars, vvherein the Caſes ſeemed to agree; you ſhall find very much diſparitie and diſproportion betvvixt the tvvo Caſes in each of the foure reſpects.1619 April 27 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Saunderson [i.e., Robert Sanderson], “[Ad Clerum.] The First Sermon. At a Visitation at Boston, Linc[olnshire] 17. April. 1619.”, in Twelve Sermons, […], [new] edition, London: […] Aug[ustine] Math[ews], for Robert Dawlman, and are to be sold by Robert Allet, […], published 1632, →OCLC, §. 19, page 23: