Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Oversee

Oversee , transitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon oferséon to survey, to despise. See Over, and See.]

1.
To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook{2}.
2.
To omit or neglect seeing; to overlook{5}. [archaic] — Spenser
3.
To see unintentionally or unexpectedly; -- the visual analogy to overhear.

Oversee , intransitive verb

To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived. [Obsolete]
The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee. — Fuller
Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin. — Walpole