Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who presides over the deliberations of an organized society or the like; a president; the chairman of a meeting.
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Examples
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This hut was a general resort to all the idlers in the vicinity; Grim, as he was generally styled for the sake of abbreviation, discharging the office of "preses," or chief moderator, in all debates held therein.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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Inevitably they ask if I'm published by one of the Minnesota preses, and I always have to say, No, New York.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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There are ex-judges, ex-preses and their famalies who "require" secret service protection because they have all contributed so much to the world that the loss of any of them would spell disaster for us all.
Report: Secret Service off hook in 2008 Obama plane mishaps 2009
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When the cloth was drawn, the burly preses arose, with all he could muster of the port of John Kemble, and spouted with a sonorous voice the formula of Macbeth: --
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824
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Howsomever, I sat in the king's seat, and in the preses chair of the House of Commons, which, you no, is something for me to say; and we have been to see the printing of books, where the very smallest dividual syllib is taken up by itself and made into words by the hand, so as to be quite confounding how it could ever read sense.
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809
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Even a very high party, primed with all the cold irony and _non est tanti_ feelings, or no feelings, of fashionable folks, may be stormed by a jovial, rough, round, and ready preses.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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With this solemnity the classes were so much affected, that at dinner (to which he and his friends were invited) the preses declared the great satisfaction all the brethren had in Mr. Renwick, that they thought the whole time he was before them, he was so filled with the
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The preses said, You see what is upon the table (meaning the boots), I will see if that will make you do it.
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The preses told him, He was only called to see if he would own his former confession.
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Accordingly he was brought before them upon the 18th, about six o'clock at night; -- Linlithgow, being preses, told him, He was brought before them to see whether he would adhere to his former confession.
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