English

Verb

præsenting

1. present participle of præsent
   • 1780s, Ezra Stiles and Franklin Bowditch Dexter, The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, C. Scribner’s Sons in 1901, page 41:

     Hav* conferred the Degrees in the Arts, I then proceeded to confer the Doctorate, first præsenting Professor Wales to the Fellows or Senatus academicus as worthy of that Honor.