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.
Presidency :: Presidency (n.) The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison..
Call :: Call (v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen..
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..
Septennate :: Septennate (n.) A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office..
Schoolmaster :: Schoolmaster (n.) The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
Executive :: Executive (n.) An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body..
President :: President (n.) Precedent.
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..
Water God :: Water god () A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, some body of water..
Presidentship :: Presidentship (n.) The office and dignity of president; presidency.
Prorector :: Prorector (n.) An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university.
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..
Message :: Message (n.) Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message..
Genethliacs :: Genethliacs (n.) The science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth..
Remove :: Remove (v. t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters..
Penates :: Penates (n. pl.) The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.
Primate :: Primate (a.) The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.
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..
Muse :: Muse (n.) One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural..
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