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Webster 1828 Edition
Presidial
PRESID'IAL
Definition 2024
presidial
presidial
See also: présidial
English
Alternative forms
- præsidial (obsolete)
Adjective
presidial (comparative more presidial, superlative most presidial)
- Belonging to a province, or being like a province; provincial.
- Pertaining to a president or one who presides; presidential.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 22:
- the doorway was vacant save for a large brindled cur that stood upon the threshold, wagging his tail and watching the scene with a suave, indulgent, presidial gaze, as if he were the patron of the ball.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 22:
- Having or relating to a garrison.
- Howell
- There are three presidial castles in this city.
- Howell
Synonyms
- (having or relating to a garrison): presidiary
Middle French
Etymology
First known attestation 1435, borrowing from Latin praesidialis[1].
Adjective
presidial m (feminine singular presidiale, masculine plural presidiaulx, feminine plural presidiales)
- of or relating to a court having the ability to make a judgment of up to 250 pounds without the possibility of appeal
References
- ↑ “presidial” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (presidial, supplement)