Definition of preside

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Preside (v. i.) To exercise superintendence; to watch over.

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President :: President (n.) A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius.
Exalt :: Exalt (v. t.) To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency..
Artist :: Artist (n.) One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.
Septennate :: Septennate (n.) A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office..
Presidencies :: Presidencies (pl. ) of Presidenc.
Calliope :: Calliope (n.) The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses..
Presidential :: Presidential (a.) Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election..
Prytany :: Prytany (n.) The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean..
Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service..
Presider :: Presider (n.) One who presides.
Clio :: Clio (n.) The Muse who presided over history.
Toastmaster :: Toastmaster (n.) A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts..
Lord :: Lord (v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord.
Diana :: Diana (n.) The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis..
Install :: Install (v. t.) To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president..
Presidency :: Presidency (n.) The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison..
Incapable :: Incapable (a.) Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government..
Valkyria :: Valkyria (n.) One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful, who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain, and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla..
Prytanis :: Prytanis (n.) A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year..
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