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To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate.

See Presidency. [Obs.]

The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.

g the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding. [R.] His angels president In every province. Milton.

Presiding or watching over. "Presidential angels." Glanvill.

The office and dignity of president; presidency. Hooker.

One who presides.

An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.

The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.

One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.

harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).

avery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

A follower of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912; -- a sense said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." [Cant]

To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen. Now call we our high court of Parliament. Shak.

The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.

The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power. [Written also camerlengo and camarlengo.]

the sleepers. Chair days, days of repose and age. -- To put into the chair, to elect as president, or as chairman of a meeting. Macaulay. -- To take the chair, to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting.

en connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.

s circuit (see Circuit, 6). In the United States, the federal circuit courts are commonly presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a special circuit judge, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance. So…