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Presiding

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pre·side  (pr-zd)
intr.v. pre·sid·ed, pre·sid·ing, pre·sides
1. To hold the position of authority; act as chairperson or president.
2. To possess or exercise authority or control.
3. Music To be the featured instrumental performer: presided at the keyboard.
[French présider, from Old French, from Latin praesidre : prae-, pre- + sedre, to sit; see sed- in Indo-European roots.]
pre·sider n.


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Thus, the presiding Judge had himself revised his charge to the jury.
Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context
In ancient times the power of the kings extended to everything whatsoever, both civil, domestic, and foreign; but in after-times they relinquished some of their privileges, and others the people assumed, so that, in some states, they left their kings only the right of presiding over the sacrifices; and even those whom it were worth while to call by that name had only the right of being commander-in-chief in their foreign wars.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
"You said rights," said Sergey Ivanovitch, waiting till Pestsov had finished, "meaning the right of sitting on juries, of voting, of presiding at official meetings, the right of entering the civil service, of sitting in parliament.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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