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presidentiary

presidentiary adjective: relating to a president or presidency.

Adjective

presidentiary (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a president or presidency.
    • The presidentiary courts, from which the present Irish courts of quarter-session are derived, were regulated more by the discretion of the president than by established principles of law; […]1837, William Cooke Taylor, History of Ireland, page 175

Origin of presidentiary

Latin praesidentia + -ary

Questions about presidentiary

What does presidentiary mean?
Presidentiary means relating to a president or presidency.
What part of speech is presidentiary?
Presidentiary is an adjective.

Words near presidentiary in the dictionary

  1. presidentialists
  2. presidentiality
  3. presidentialization
  4. presidentially
  5. presidentialness
  6. presidentiary
  7. presidenting
  8. presidentless
  9. presidentress
  10. presidentresses
  11. presidentrices

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