Presidential vs Presidial - What's the difference?
presidential | presidial |
Presiding or watching over.
Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election.
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:
Having or relating to a garrison.
* Howell
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
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(en adjective)Derived terms
* presidentialnesspresidial
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* (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- There are three presidial castles in this city.