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Definition of Presidial
1. a. Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.
Definition of Presidial
1. Adjective. Belonging to a province, or being like a province; provincial. ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to a president or one who presides; presidential. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Presidial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presidial
Literary usage of Presidial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"POPULATION—SAN DIEGO—LAST OF THE presidial COMPANY—MUNICIPAL ... The last trace
of the old presidial organization at San Diego is a report of Alferez ..."
2. The Spanish Archives of New Mexico: Comp. and Chronologically Arranged with by Ralph Emerson Twitchell (1914)
"DS 6f 2872 SANTA FE presidial COMPANY. January 1- December 31, 1820. Returns.
DS and scraps. 98f 2873 MELGARES. Santa Fe, January 3, 1820. ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1864)
"Par NICHOLAS BERGIER, Avocat au Siege presidial de Reims. Ed. Brussels: 1728. 3.
Statutes on the subject of Highways, from the Folio Edition of the Statutes ..."
4. The Empire of Brazil at the Universal Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia by Brazil (1876)
"presidial AND MILITARY COLONIES presidial PENITENTIARY OF FERNANDO DE NORONHA
The most important garrisoned penitentiary is that of the island of Fernando ..."
5. Spanish Institutions of the Southwest by Frank Wilson Blackmar (1891)
"PRESIDIOS AND presidial TOWNS. To protect settlers against the attacks of Indians,
and to secure permanently the country against foreign invasion, ..."
6. A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Compiled edited by Royal Geographical Society Great Britain (1856)
"WINDORF, a market-town of Bavaria, in the circle of Lower Bavaria, and presidial
of Vilshofen, on the Danube. Pop. 524. —Also a village of Saxony, ..."
7. The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime-minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Charlotte Lennox (1817)
"... besides four masters of accounts in every chamber, two in every office in the
finances, two offices of counsellor in every presidial court, an assessor ..."
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