单词 | preseance |
释义 | † preseancen. Obsolete. The action or fact of presiding; chairmanship, governance, presidency. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [noun] bestness1548 preseance1591 presidency1608 primity1643 superlativenessa1649 supreme1681 optimism1797 society > authority > control > [noun] > presiding presidencea1500 preseance1591 presessiona1677 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 222 Yet were they at discorde brawling about the preseance. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 71 Who..may for their discreete iudgement in precedence, and preseance, read a lesson to our ciuilest gentry. a1626 F. Bacon Wks. (1852) 390/2 They gave the preseance to France. a1785 J. Hall-Stevenson Wks. (1795) II. 225 Your Lordship's preseance and place To me is an establish'd thing. 1876 Rep. Commissioners of U.S. to Internat. Exhibition held at Vienna, 1873 i. ii. 117 He does not hesitate to give to the tactus eruditus the precedence, if not the preseance, over the mens eruditus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1591 |
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