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President   /prˈɛzədˌɛnt/  /prˈɛzɪdənt/   Listen
noun
President  n.  Precedent. (Obs.)


President  n.  
1.
One who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding officer, as of a legislative body. Specifically:
(a)
The chief officer of a corporation, company, institution, society, or the like.
(b)
The chief executive officer of the government in certain republics; as, the president of the United States.
2.
A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius. (Obs.) "Just Apollo, president of verse."


adjective
President  adj.  Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding. (R.) "His angels president In every province."





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"President" Quotes from Famous Books



... ourselves with the periodical election of the political clay images which it manipulated and moulded to any shape and effect at its pleasure. The Accumulation knew that it was the sovereignty, whatever figure-head we called president or governor or mayor: we had other names for these officials, but I use their analogues for the sake of clearness, and I hope my good friend over there will not think I am still talking ...
— A Traveler from Altruria: Romance • W. D. Howells
... his public service in subsequent capacities; his devotedness to his party, and the rigid consistency with which he had adhered to its principles, or, at all events, kept pace with its organized movements; his remarkable zeal as president of a Bible society; his unimpeachable integrity as treasurer of a widow's and orphan's fund; his benefits to horticulture, by producing two much esteemed varieties of the pear and to agriculture, through ...
— The House of the Seven Gables • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... two exquisite Vandykes (whatever Sir Joshua may say of them), and in which the very management of the gray tones which the President abuses forms the principal excellence and charm. Why, after all, are we not to have our opinion? Sir Joshua is not the Pope. The color of one of those Vandykes is as fine as FINE Paul Veronese, and the ...
— Little Travels and Roadside Sketches • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Pacha was a friend of eight years' date. I had known him during my first expedition to the Nile sources as Ismail Bey, president of the council at Khartoum. He had lately been appointed governor, and I could only regret that my excellent friend had not been in that capacity from the commencement of the expedition, as I should have derived much assistance from his great ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker
... and how humble he felt, concluding by advising all his late supporters to do as he had done by taking "a straight chute" for the old party. He ended amid a storm of applause, was reinstated at once, and was made President of the next Democratic State Convention. There he was in his glory. His tact and good humor were infinite, and he held those hundreds of excitable and explosive men in the hollow of his hand. He would dismiss a dangerous ...
— California Sketches, Second Series • O. P. Fitzgerald


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