presidential

comparative more presidential · superlative most presidential · alternative Presidential

1. Pertaining to a president or presidency.First known use 17th c.

   Take the New Right's full-throated embrace of protectionism and industrial policy. This romance with protectionism started in the 1990s with former GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, gained enormous traction under former President Donald Trump, and is still going strong today.

   2024 March 20, Veronique de Rugy, “The Political Right Has Luxury Beliefs, Too”, in Reason

2. obsoletePresiding or watching over.First known use 17th–19th c.
3. With the bearing or composure that befits a president; stately, dignified.First known use 19th c.

   I feel my age and supposed status mean I am permanently required to be in presidential mode. And I mean this in the old sense of “presidential”, meaning magnanimous, patient and generous, rather than in the modern sense of presidential, meaning being a corrupt, pussy-grabbing racist.

   2016 November 20, Stewart Lee, “No more schmoozing with the enemy on TV shows”, in The Guardian

4. Catholicism(of prayers) addressed to God on behalf of the congregation by the presiding priest

   These prayers are addressed to God in the name of the entire holy people and all present, by the priest who presides over the assembly in the person of Christ. It is with good reason, therefore, that they are called the "presidential prayers."

   2002, General Instruction of the Roman Missal, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc., §30

comparative more Presidential · superlative most Presidential

1. Alternative letter-case form of presidential.

   After delaying the decision for three years, the President eventually endorsed the concept in the foremath of the 1984 Presidential election, ...

   1995, William T. Golden, Science and Technology Advice to the President, Congress, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 191

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   Seward was not trusted by Greeley, Phillips, Lovejoy, and the radicals of their complexion. They apprehended that after using the "American citizens of African descent," until he (Seward) should be safely seated in the Presidential chair, he would abandon the negro and "Tylerize" their Party; hence, they would not trust him

   1864, Thomas Jefferson Miles, To All Whom It May Concern

   With the annual Presidential dinner to the Cabinet as a curtain-raiser, there is a short intermission—just one day—before the Diplomatic Reception, when it seems as if the White House becomes a setting for a Graustarkian novel, so bejeweled, besashed, beturbaned, and betiaraed are the guests.

   1938 December 12, Derek Fox, “No “Grilled Millionaire” for Breakfast … White House Perks Up … Yule Gifts, Social Doings”, in The United States News, volume six, number fifty, Washington, D.C., page 2, column 4

   When somebody points up a piece of statesmanship (as opposed to politicianship) in either man's record, there is always the rejoinder: "He has been planning his Presidential climb for many years. This was part of the strategy."

   1960, The Contemporary Review, volume 198, page 542

   In the days before televised press conferences, or debates between Presidential contenders, the railroads carried the politicians to the people. Here, President Truman addresses a crowd from the verandah of his private car, at Sacramento during the 1952 campaign.

   1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, →ISBN, page 11, photo caption

   Is there any precedent in Ohio for a downballot candidate receiving on a percentage or absolute basis so many more votes than the Presidential candidate of the same party in this or any other presidential election?

   2009, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, Lessons learned from the 2004 presidential election, page 302