surview

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(verb) IPA^(key): /sə(ɹ)ˈvjuː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(noun) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː(ɹ)vjuː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Verb

surview (third-person singular simple present surviews, present participle surviewing, simple past and past participle surviewed)

(transitive, obsolete) To survey; to make a survey of.
Synonyms: survise, pervise
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
  to surview his ground

Noun

surview (plural surviews)

(obsolete) A survey.
- 1619 April 27 (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:
  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.