Definition of Preside

Preside

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.

To exercise superintendence; to watch over.

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Preside Quotations

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Henry Miller

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
John Chrysostom

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Richard Pryor

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
Lillian Hellman

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
Jane Byrne

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
Paul Martin

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Eliza Farnham

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Preside Translations

preside in Dutch is presideren, voorzitten
preside in Latin is praesieo-sedi-ere
preside in Spanish is presidir

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