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Webster 1828 Edition


Presidial

PRESID'IAL


Definition 2024


presidial

presidial

See also: présidial

English

Alternative forms

Adjective

presidial (comparative more presidial, superlative most presidial)

  1. Belonging to a province, or being like a province; provincial.
  2. 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.
  3. Having or relating to a garrison.
    • Howell
      There are three presidial castles in this city.

Synonyms


Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1435, borrowing from Latin praesidialis[1].

Adjective

presidial m (feminine singular presidiale, masculine plural presidiaulx, feminine plural presidiales)

  1. of or relating to a court having the ability to make a judgment of up to 250 pounds without the possibility of appeal

References

  1. 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)