presidentialadj.

1650 R. Gell Αγγελοκρατια Θεου 10 He would..govern them..by a presidentiall Angel.

1660 J. Gauden Κακουργοι 105 The order and eminency of presidential Episcopacy.

1704 T. Taylor Two Covenants God with Mankind iii. 235 God who has commission'd the Presidential Angels of Countrys or Persons, very well knows they will not exceed their Commission; that they will not act but by the Rules of Order and Justice.

a1826 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1980) I. 594 Gold is Light under the presidential Power and Form of Gravitation.

1857 S. Wilberforce Speeches on Missions (1874) 107 The necessity of establishing missions in the presidential and other principal cities [of India].

1877 S. J. Owen in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches Introd. p. xlvi The Presidential designation of the young civilian should be left to the Governor-General.

1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson 196/1 A gallant veteran of the old Bengal Artillery..was full of ‘Presidential’ prejudices.

1929 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 145 20 The most important recommendations of the commission were the abolition of the presidential system and the placing of all the armies under the direct control of the Commander-in-Chief in India.

1848 Pittsfield (Mass.) Sun 25 May 2/5 The present is ‘Presidential year’, as it has been termed, the period for an election of Executive of the United States, and the time is at hand for the repetition..of the usual predictions of ruin by the prophets of woe in the whig ranks.

1893 K. D. Wiggin Polly Oliver's Problem (1894) xvii. 185 As it chances to be a presidential year, we will celebrate Inauguration Day.

1903 N.Y. Evening Post 5 Sept. ii. 1/6 Every merchant knows that the ‘buying demand’ is exceedingly sensitive. It is traditionally so..in a Presidential year.

1956 Law & Contemp. Probl. 21 618 The preoccupations of the presidential week will vary with the seasons of the presidential year.

2004 National Rev. 29 Nov. 66/3 A professor of government who..had always succeeded in predicting the outcome of presidential year elections.

1936 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 16 382 Here is a forthright volume on Brazilian politics in particular and Latin American ‘presidentialism’ in general.

1964 J. E. S. Hayward in Parl. Affairs 18 35 L'Express drew the conclusion that the Opposition must accept Presidentialism and find a candidate for the next election.

1973 W. G. Andrews in Polit. Stud. 21 311 The French constitutional structure has undergone radical change from parliamentarism towards presidentialism since 1958.

1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 2 Dec. 47/4 Why did he run? Why, after denouncing as recently as June, the ‘presidentialism, this incurable sickness’ of Haitian politicians.

1935 Geogr. Jrnl. 86 474 Many of the drawbacks which the author urges against this ‘presidentialist’ form have also handicapped representative democratic government in many parts of the world.

1965 Economist 28 Aug. 787/3 Professor Burns himself is a convinced Presidentialist (and Democrat), and offers some concluding recommendations for reducing the four-party competition to two.

2001 Harvard Law Rev. 114 2273 Viewed from this perspective, the debate in legal doctrine and scholarship between strong and weak presidentialists emerges as far too narrow in focus.

1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor 187 For if the zeal of God, and the rules of Honour, and Justice, inspire such a one, he cannot chuse but be presidentially good.

1864 H. Bushnell Christ & his Salvation xiv. 298 He lives, in fact, Presidentially, and is dignified inwardly by the dignities of his position.

1884 Daily News 24 July 5/2 On each of the six days a new president of the Conference will be elected, so that each of the great Powers will be represented presidentially.

1933 Harvard Law Rev. 47 122 The walking delegates have been furnished with slogans, presidentially published, with which to attack the 85% of industry not organized.

1994 Times 12 Oct. 15/1 The idea was to let others draw favourable conclusions about electoral benefits while he stayed presidentially above the fray.