pres.

Adjective

present (comparative more present, superlative most present)

1. Relating to now, for the time being; current.
   • The barbaric practice continues to the present day.
2. Located in the immediate vicinity.
   • Only half of all present members were present at the meeting.

   Synonyms:

   close

3. (obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
   • Amongſt this number of Cordials and Alteratiues, J doe not find a more preſent remedy, then a cup of wine, or ſtrong drinke, and if it be ſoberly and opportunely vſed.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Alteratiues and Corials, corroborating, reſoluing the reliques, and mending the Temperament”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition...

   Synonyms:

   presentaneous

4. (obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
   • Sign me a present pardon for my brother,c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Synonyms:

   instantaneous

5. (dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
   • a present wit
6. (obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
   • to find a god so present to my prayer1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 1”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

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Adjective

presidential (comparative more presidential, superlative most presidential)

1. Pertaining to a president or presidency.
   • Take the New Right's full-throated embrace of protectionism and industrial policy. This romance with protectionism started in the 1990s with former GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, gained enormous traction under former President Donald Trump, and is still going strong today.2024 March 20, Veronique de Rugy, “The Political Right Has Luxury Beliefs, Too”, in Reason
2. (obsolete) Presiding or watching over.
3. With the bearing or composure that befits a president; stately, dignified.
   • I feel my age and supposed status mean I am permanently required to be in presidential mode. And I mean this in the old sense of “presidential”, meaning magnanimous, patient and generous, rather than in the modern sense of presidential, meaning being a corrupt, pussy-grabbing racist.2016 November 20, Stewart Lee, “No more schmoozing with the enemy on TV shows”, in The Guardian
4. (of prayers) addressed to God on behalf of the congregation by the presiding priest
   • These prayers are addressed to God in the name of the entire holy people and all present, by the priest who presides over the assembly in the person of Christ. It is with good reason, therefore, that they are called the "presidential prayers."2002, General Instruction of the Roman Missal, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc., §30