Definition of "superintendence" [su•per•in•tend•ence]

• The act of superintending; supervision (noun)

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• "Spiritual superintendence is a superintendence of a body."
• "Oversight or superintendence is evidently implied."
• "That Luke wrote his Gospel during this period, under the apostle's superintendence, is the not unlikely conjecture of able critics."