Definition of Presiders

1. presider [n] - See also: presider

Lexicographical Neighbors of Presiders

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Literary usage of Presiders

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life of John Boyle O'Reilly by James Jeffrey Roche, Mary Murphy O'Reilly (1891)
"In their white faces on that day we'll shake The rule and precedent that now we make; And we the old presiders, then shall speak, Saying, " Young men, ..."

2. Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy by Vernon Lee (1908)
"nay learned : poetesses, composers, and presiders over intellectual society, the friends, patronesses, and counsellors ..."

3. The Salon: Letters on Art, Music, Popular Life and Politics in Paris by Heinrich Heine (1893)
"... and employed for mere loquacious reflection as presiders at dinners, deputies, ministers, tribunes, and so forth.1 The 1 As Heine was perhaps the first ..."

4. The Jonny-cake Papers of "Shepherd Tom": Together with Reminiscences of by Thomas Robinson Hazard, Rowland Gibson Hazard (1915)
"... patrons of the sciences, music, and poetry, and presiders over the feasts and solemnities of the gods. Taking his stand on the rock near to the sea, ..."

5. The Bibliographical Decameron: Or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse Upon by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1817)
"Hear THAT, ye venerable and wealthy presiders over Bodies corporate ! But to my purpose. The reader will necessarily consult Drake's Anti~ ..."

6. The Threshold Covenant; Or, The Beginning of Religious Rites by Henry Clay Trumbull (1896)
"... as presiders over entrances;" while among the Romans there are other " gods of entrances; Cardea (Hinge- goddess), called after hinges; ..."

7. A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected by Leigh Hunt, Joseph Edward Babson (1870)
"... charms by singing; and this is the most ancient acceptation of the term, as Plato has shown, by calling the presiders over the spheres of heaven sirens. ..."

8. Fifty Years History of the Temperance Cause by Jane E. Stebbins, T. A. H. Brown (1874)
"The palace-like arrangements of these institutions are remarkable, but there is one thing in which the lordly presiders are not quite at their ease. ..."

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