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Presidential vs Presidial - What's the difference?

presidential | presidial |

As adjectives the difference between presidential and presidial

is that presidential is presiding or watching over while presidial is belonging to a province, or being like a province; provincial.

presidential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Presiding or watching over.
  • Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election.
  • Derived terms

    * presidentialness

    presidial

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Belonging to a province, or being like a province; provincial.
  • Pertaining to a president or one who presides; presidential.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 22:
  • the doorway was vacant save for a large brindled cur that stood upon the threshold, wagging his tail and watching the scene with a suave, indulgent, presidial gaze, as if he were the patron of the ball.
  • Having or relating to a garrison.
  • * Howell
  • There are three presidial castles in this city.

    Synonyms

    * (having or relating to a garrison) (l) ----