Definition of "overseers" []

• Plural form of overseer. (noun)

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• "Indeed, I found some of them to be wiser than the so-called overseers of the poor and selectmen of the town, and thought it was time that the tables were turned."
• "For as ministers are called overseers, rulers, guides, pastors, and the like, so are they commanded to feed the flock, to take the oversight of it, and to rule the house of God,"
• "” He called the overseers, and the work was decided on without contradiction, something that had never happened before."