Presidential
[,prezɪ'denʃəl] or ['prɛzədɛnʃəl]
Definition
(adj.) befitting a president; 'criticized the candidate for not looking presidential' .
(adj.) relating to a president or presidency; 'presidential aides'; 'presidential veto' .
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Definition
(a.) Presiding or watching over.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election.
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Examples
- His Democratic opponents, especially Woodrow Wilson, are, as I write, in the midst of the Presidential campaign of 1912, trying to focus attention on the tariff. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- While a citizen of Missouri, my first opportunity for casting a vote at a Presidential election occurred. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Gratz Brown --afterwards Governor of Missouri and in 1872 Vice-Presidential candidate --was in command. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- About this time they left to take part in the presidential election, which took place that year, leaving their corps to Osterhaus and Ransom. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As before, Edison was allotted to press report, and remembers very distinctly taking the Presidential message and veto of the District of Columbia bill by President Johnson. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As the time for the Presidential election of 1856--the first at which I had the opportunity of voting--approached, party feeling began to run high. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- South Carolina promptly seceded after the result of the Presidential election was known. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But the crash came when there was a big night’s work--a presidential vote, I think it was--and copy kept pouring in at the top rate of speed until we fell an hour and a half or two hours behind. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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