presidial

See also: présidial

English

From Middle French presidial, from Latin praesidialis, variant of praesidalis, from praeses (“provincial governor”).

presidial (comparative more presidial, superlative most presidial)

Belonging to a province, or being like a province; provincial.
Pertaining to a president or one who presides; presidential.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 22:
  the doorway was vacant save for a large brindled cur that stood upon the threshold, wagging his tail and watching the scene with a suave, indulgent, presidial gaze, as if he were the patron of the ball.
Having or relating to a garrison.
- 1655, James Howell, “To Sir T. H. Knight”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], volume (please specify the page), 3rd edition, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
  There are three presidial castles in this city.

First known attestation 1435, borrowed from Latin praesidialis[1].

presidial m (feminine singular presidiale, masculine plural presidiaulx, feminine plural presidiales)

of or relating to a court having the ability to make a judgment of up to 250 pounds without the possibility of appeal

Etymology and history of “presidial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (presidial, supplement)

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