Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, possessing, or being a garrison.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.
- Pertaining or belonging to a presidio.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Belonging to a
province , or being like a province;provincial . - adjective Pertaining to a
president or one who presides;presidential . - adjective Having or relating to a
garrison .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The zealous friends of the church, as well as those who were enriched by confiscations, represented to the king that this state of things arose from the fact that the higher magistrates, themselves tainted with heresy, connived at its spread, and that the "presidial" judges abstained from employing the powers conferred by the edict, through fear of compromising themselves with the sovereign courts.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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Its most striking peculiarity was that it committed the trial of heretics to the newly appointed "presidial" judges, whose sentence, when ten counsellors had been associated with them, was to be final. [
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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In the shameful troubles excited by the refusal of sacraments, the simple presidial of Nantes condemned the bishop of that city to pay a fine of six thousand francs for having refused the communion to those who demanded it.
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It is built against the old presidial, or ancient court of appeal, and people still call it the maison de justice.
Eve and David 2007
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It is built against the old presidial, or ancient court of appeal, and people still call it the maison de justice.
Eve and David 2007
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M. de Thou, hearing them summon the criminal recorder of the presidial of
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For the edict does not, as he asserts, permit "the civil judges -- presidial judges as well as parliaments -- equally with the spiritual, to commence every process."
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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All the presidial companies are composed of the natives of the country, but the most of them are entirely indolent, it being very rare for any individual to strive to augment his fortune.
What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant
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We have a long interrogatory of St. Phileas before him from the presidial registers.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Some of them are presidial acts, _i. e._ extracted from the court registers; others were written from the relations of eye-witnesses of undoubted veracity.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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