Preside
[prɪ'zaɪd]
Definition
(verb.) act as president; 'preside over companies and corporations'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate.
(v. i.) To exercise superintendence; to watch over.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Command, rule, be at the head, act as chief, have the control, hold the reins, act as president.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Manage, superintend, direct, control, govern,[See MANAGE]
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Definition
v.i. to direct or control esp. at a meeting: to superintend.—ns. Pres′idency the office of a president or his dignity term of office jurisdiction or residence: a division of British India as the Presidency of Bengal; Pres′ident one who presides over a meeting: a chairman: the chief officer of a college institution &c.: an officer elected from time to time as chief ruler of a republic—also adj. (Milt.).—n.fem. Pres′identess.—adj. Presiden′tial presiding over: pertaining to a president.—n. Pres′identship.—Lord President the presiding judge of the Court of Session in Scotland; Lord President of the Council a member of the House of Lords who presides over the privy council with especial charge of education sanitation &c.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese to perform upon a musical instrument; as 'He presided at the piccolo. '
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Examples
- Hannah Brown will preside, and all are invited to attend. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Although a comparative stranger I was called upon to preside; the sole reason, possibly, was that I had been in the army and had seen service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Miss Clarissa presided. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- BOUNDERBY being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- What happy combination of the planets presided over her birth, I wonder? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In a school carried on by sheer cruelty, whether it is presided over by a dunce or not, there is not likely to be much learnt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Doctor Mell (of Colonial Salem-House Grammar School, Port Middlebay) presided, and on his right sat the distinguished guest. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Old Wardle would not hear of his rising, so they made the bed the chair, and Mr. Pickwick presided. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Woe to the defaulter whose appeal lay to the tribunal where those severe eyes presided. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You think of him as a good counsellor, as an excellent presiding officer. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Every one now sat down, Mr. Bulstrode presiding, pale and self-restrained as usual. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A supper-table, glittering with plate and cut glass, was set out, on whose arrangements our former friend, old Chloe, was presiding. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It served its purpose; never made any money; and I had the unpleasant task of presiding at its obsequies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And such a presiding genius will be always required in our State if the government is to laSt. Yes, he will be absolutely necessary. Plato. The Republic.
- He who mingles them in harmonious concord is the true musician,--he shall be the presiding genius of our State. Plato. The Republic.
- Laws, vice-president and actual presiding officer of the Gold Exchange, devised and introduced what was popularly known as the gold indicator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ladies and gentlemen, I am ordered by Miss Woodhouse (who, wherever she is, presides) to say, that she desires to know what you are all thinking of? Jane Austen. Emma.
Editor: Priscilla