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VIEWABLY.
Robertson Ckas. F, m. f 38 To view all the constable's
actions with a mean and unbecoming jealousy.
O. To regard or consider in a certain light.
1765 Mttseum Rust. IV. no If you, gentlemen, view this
matter in that important light I do. 1779 Mirror No. 28,
He seems to have viewed the unhappy people of that
country merely as the instruments .. to furnish himself and
his countrymen with, .wealth. i83« Lewis Use Sr Ab. Pol.
Ttntis X. 84 A third manner of viewing mixed governments.
1861 Palev Aeschylus (ed. 2), Ageun. 1548 note.
So far frcwn regarding the murder of her husband as a
crime^ she views it simply as a just retaliation. 1875
lowETT PUU (ed. 2) I. 32 Wisdom, viewed in this new
Ught merely as a knowledge of knowledge and ignorance.
4. intr. To look or see into something. rare~\
1711 Swift Exam. Na 27 f ii Mr. Harley [is] sagacious
to view into the remotest consequences of things.
Hence Viewed (vi;/d), Viewing,///, adjs.
"577 Grange Goldtn Aphrod. Fijb, For my vewyng eyes
haue seene your paynting penne. 1881 Society 4 Nov. 5/1
The hounds ran on the line of a viewed fox.
Viewably, Of/z/. rare-K [f. Viewz*.] Visibly.
1680 C. 'HzssK Church Hist. 357 Satan was seen to fall
like lightning from heaven, to wit, viewably, violently, and
velociously or swiftly.
Viewed, a. rarr'^. [f. View sb^ Inclined or
given to views or theories.
a 1635 Naunton Fragm, Reg. (1641) 33 It is a certaine
note of the times, that the Queene in her choyce, never
tooke in her favor a meere vew'd man, or a Mechanicke.
Viewer (vi«*9j). Also 5 vywer, vyewer,
5-6 vewer, 6 vewar. [f. View v. + -eb.]
1. A person appointed to examine or inspect
something, either on a special occasion or permanently
; in later use esp. an inspector or ex-
aminer of goods supplied by contract ;
+ spec, in
LaWy one appointed by a court to inspect a place,
property, etc., and report upon it.
Formerly the designation of certain officials in the town
of St, Albans: see A. E. Gibbs Corpor. Rec. St, Allans
(1890) II.
Z415-6 [see View s^. ij. X447 Scriptores Tres (Surtees)
App. ^. cccxiii. The said.. Alexander [etc.].. sail werkmanlike
wirke the said myne..be the sight of certeyn vewers
tharto assigned. 1479-8Z Rec. St. Mary at Hill(ifjo$) iii
Item, payd to the vywers for to ouerse the howse J?at
dyghton dwellith in. Ibid.y Payd for the vywers labour and
aitendaunce at diuerse tymez. a 1548 Hall Chron.^ Hen.
VIII ^ 103 For thecapitalneof the horsemen was appointed
sir Edward Gyldford, by whom the currers and vewers of
the countrey were appointrd. 1601 J. Kevmor Dutch Fish'
1*^(1664) 7 She [the herring-buss] imployetb..at Land..
Viewers, Packers, Tellers, Dressers, Couchers to make the
Herrings lawfull Merchandizes. 1651 G. W. tr. CoTveVs
Inst. 252 The Judg commands the SherifFe, That at a day
assignnl, he cause a view to be taken by such Viewers or
Surveyers, as may certifie the Court [etc.]. 1700 Tyrrell
Hist. Eng. II. 819 Our Regarders or Viewers shall go
through the Forests to make a View or Regard. 1708 J.
CuAMBEKLAYNE St. Gt. Brit. (1710) 490 Viewer and
Examiner of Tobacco [at the Port of London). 1714 in
Hist. Northfield, Mass. (1875) 134 One-half of said fence to
be accounted as Public Fence, and the whole to be under
the viewers for the security of the Great Meadow. 1828
Webster, Viewer,.. m New England, a town officer whose
duty is to inspect something ; as, a viewer of fences, who
inspects them to determine whether they are sufficient in
law. 1834 in Nicolay & Hay A. Lincoln I. 119 note. To
appoint viewers to view and locate a road from Musick's
ferry on Salt Creek. 1863 Cornh, Mag. VII. 323 The very
viewers who first examine the stores, and on the nature of
whose report so much depends. x886 Pall Mall G. 6 Mar.
4/a A large number of viewers, male and female, are kept,
whose sole duty it is to see that everything is faultless and
in good order.
transf. C1540 J. Heywood Witty