Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To survey.
  • noun A survey; a looking on the surface only.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To survey; to make a survey of.
  • noun obsolete A survey.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A survey.

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Examples

  • By doing this when the whole public and Pak army goes totally anti US, his,i,e Musharaf can surview

    U.S. Releases Video of Pakistan Airstrike - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • There is a want of that prospectiveness of mind, that surview, which enables a man to foresee the whole of what he is to convey, appertaining to any one point; and by this means so to subordinate and arrange the different parts according to their relative importance, as to convey it at once, and as an organized whole.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • For a surview over all the factionables see Iris in the Evenine’s World. 6 Binomeans to be comprendered.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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