Overlook
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
(2): ( v. t.) To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse.
(3): ( v. t.) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
(4): ( v. t.) To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill.
(5): ( v. t.) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"to overlook" (an aorist form), is used in Acts 17:30 , RV (AV, "winked at"), i.e., God bore with them without interposing by way of punishment, though the debasing tendencies of idolatry necessarily developed themselves.
