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presidiary, a. and n.|prɪˈsɪdɪərɪ|
[ad. L. præsidiārius that serves for defence, f. præsidium a presiding over, defence, assistance, a garrison, f. præsidēre to preside: see -ary1.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or serving as a garrison, garrisoning; having a garrison, garrisoned.
1599Hayward 1st Pt. Hen. IV 57 But the Romane Conquerors kept not their presidiarie Souldiers in idle garrison. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 242 The number of soldiers in all the presidiarie places of Spaine is 8000. 1620J. Dyke Counterpoyson 4 A martiall and presidiary guarding of a mans selfe. 1711Ld. Molesworth tr. F. Hotman's Franco-Gallia (1721) 23 Those Germans which were transplanted by the Emperor Frederick the IId, into..Naples and Sicily, and establish'd there as a presidiary Colony, were called Franks. 1757J. H. Grose Voy. E. Indies 61 The presidiary force of the island [Bombay]. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) IV. xxxv. 217 Presidiary cohorts were stationed at every threatened point of attack. 1875― Gen. Hist. Rome lxxvii, Britain had been nominally recovered, but the presidiary legions had been withdrawn.
B. n. A guard, a protection; in quot. 1745, a relay, a reserve to fall back upon.
1623Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xix. ix, Not one of those heavenly Presidiaries strucke a stroke for the Prophet. 1745tr. Columella's Husb. iii. xvi, Some cuttings must be planted as presidiaries for the regular vines. |