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Webster 1913 Edition


Surveillance

Sur-veil′lance

,
Noun.
[F., fr.
surveiller
to watch over;
sur
over +
veiller
to watch, L.
vigilare
. See
Sur-
, and
Vigil
.]
Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision.
That sort of
surveillance
of which . . . the young have accused the old.
Sir W. Scott.