Definition of preside

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

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President :: President (a.) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.
Federalist :: Federalist (n.) An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington..
President :: President (n.) The chief executive officer of the government in certain republics; as, the president of the United States..
Gift :: Gift (v. t.) The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President..
Toastmaster :: Toastmaster (n.) A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts..
Speaker :: Speaker (n.) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives..
Terminus :: Terminus (n.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line..
Presidency :: Presidency (n.) One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president..
Genius :: Genius (n.) A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee..
Archeus :: Archeus (n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.
Presiding :: Presiding () a. & n. from Preside.
Presidency :: Presidency (n.) The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.
Genethliacs :: Genethliacs (n.) The science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth..
Presider :: Presider (n.) One who presides.
Presidential :: Presidential (a.) Presiding or watching over.
Hymen :: Hymen (n.) A fabulous deity; according to some, the son of Apollo and Urania, according to others, of Bacchus and Venus. He was the god of marriage, and presided over nuptial solemnities..
Presidency :: Presidency (n.) The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency..
Landamman :: Landamman (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
Surrogate :: Surrogate (n.) In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates..
Presidential :: Presidential (a.) Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election..
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