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foresitter

foresitter noun: one who presides; a president.

Noun

foresitter (plural foresitters)

  1. (rare) One who presides; a president.
    • 1. Or foresitter, i. e. President.1852, Alfred the Great, translated by E. Thomson, “King Alfred’s Version of Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation; […]”, in The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: […]...
    • Hefele finds that some Roman Bishop is spoken of as praesidens, that is foresitting in other Ecumenical Councils (419), or that Hosius is mentioned as having been a leader (ἡγήσατο) in Councils (420), and he immediately jumps to the conclusion that he was the only foresitter and the only leader...1891 July, James Chrystal, “The Synod Itself”, in Authoritative Christianity. The First Ecumenical Council; […], volumes I (Which Contains All Its Undisputed Remains in Greek and English), Jersey...

Examples of foresitter in a sentence

  • Neverlotwithstanding, we will ask the foresitters of our stemmlocals that they ask for your hexpertise in eclectical fraud, so that all our stemms are telled^([sic]) like they must.2000 November 11, AquatiK, “Al Gore needs your help”, in be.politics (Usenet), archived from the original on 17 Nov 2025:
  • The foresitter of a cantref, namely the footholder, gives a vat of bragget to the king each year.2011, Sara Elin Roberts, transl., “Text and Translation”, in Llawysgrif Pomffred: An Edition and Study of Peniarth MS 259B (Medieval Law...

Forms of foresitter

pluralforesitters

Origin of foresitter

From fore- (“before”) + sitter or foresit + -er. Compare Latin praesidēns (“leader”, literally “sitting before”) and Old English foresittan (“to preside”, literally “to sit before”).

Questions about foresitter

What does foresitter mean?
Foresitter means one who presides; a president.
How do you use foresitter in a sentence?
Neverlotwithstanding, we will ask the foresitters of our stemmlocals that they ask for your hexpertise in eclectical fraud, so that all our stemms are telled^([sic]) like they must.
What part of speech is foresitter?
Foresitter is a noun.
What is the plural of foresitter?
The plural of foresitter is foresitters.

Words near foresitter in the dictionary

  1. foresing
  2. foresinger
  3. foresister
  4. foresisters
  5. foresit
  6. foresitter
  7. foresitters
  8. foresketch
  9. foresketches
  10. foreskin
  11. foreskin eater

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