Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having or implying actual presence; present.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Implying actual presence; present, immediate.

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  • adjective obsolete Implying actual presence; present, immediate.

Etymologies

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Latin praesentialis.

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Examples

  • That's an easy one, who is more "presential" obviously it boils down to who can do more than be present and take the bull by the tail WITHOUT at teleprompter.

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  • This presential nomination is nothing but a contest of racial issue.

    Clyburn to endorse Obama 2008

  • Critical to presential knowledge is the Porphyrian doctrine of the unity of the intellect, the intellecting subject and its intelligible object.

    Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009

  • Assume, for arguments sake, that the Democratic presential nominee spent part of his early schooling at an establishment in which he studied the Koran or that his relatives are muslim, as a matter of logic it does not follow that he is a wide eyed crypto - muslim.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Seasons 6 and 7 of The West Wing are among my favourites because they deal with a presential election campaign, despite the absence of Sorkin's writing.

    I heart US presidential election campaigns DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • Rizvi (1999: 224) notes that entities grasped as essences through presential knowledge are

    Suhrawardi Marcotte, Roxanne 2007

  • Those who pray out of presential knowledge and wisdom, literally behold that nothing save the Infinite One whose very existence cannot accept a second, exists.

    Archive 2007-11-01 mkhalfan@gmail.com 2007

  • Suhrawardi's Illuminationist epistemology revolves around his theory of ˜presential™ (huduri) knowledge that one is able to achieve through intuitive apprehension or contemplative vision

    Suhrawardi Marcotte, Roxanne 2007

  • Those who pray out of presential knowledge and wisdom, literally behold that nothing save the Infinite One whose very existence cannot accept a second, exists.

    PEAK OF DIVINE PROXIMITY mkhalfan@gmail.com 2007

  • Seasons 6 and 7 of The West Wing are among my favourites because they deal with a presential election campaign, despite the absence of Sorkin's writing.

    Archive 2007-01-01 DAVID BISHOP 2007

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