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præsidial

præsidial is the obsolete form of presidial.

Meaning of presidial

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.
    • 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, published 2005, page 22
  3. Having or relating to a garrison.
    • There are three presidial castles in this city.1655, James Howell, “To Sir T. H. Knight”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    presidiary

Forms of præsidial

comparativemore præsidial
superlativemost præsidial

Questions about præsidial

What is præsidial the obsolete form of?
Præsidial is the obsolete form of presidial.

Words near præsidial in the dictionary

  1. præserveth
  2. præserving
  3. præside
  4. præsident
  5. præsidents
  6. præsidial
  7. præstige
  8. præstigious
  9. præsumably
  10. præsume
  11. præsumed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præsidial (page history and authors); presidial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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