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Presider   Listen
noun
Presider  n.  One who presides.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Presider" Quotes from Famous Books



... intendant, though holding only the third rank in the council, should act as its president. [Footnote: Declaration du Roy, 23 Sept., 1675.] The commission of Duchesneau, however, empowered him to preside only in the absence of the governor; [Footnote: "Presider au Conseil Souverain en l'absence du dit Sieur de Frontenac."—Commission de Duchesneau, 5 Juin, 1675.] while Frontenac is styled "chief and president of the council" in several of the despatches addressed to him. Here was an inconsistency. Both parties claimed the right of presiding, ...
— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman



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