preside
/pɹɪˈzaɪd/ verb C2- To act as president or chairperson.
- To exercise authority or control.
- To be a featured solo performer. · I’ll preside at the organ.
He/she/it presides · Past presided · Past participle presided · -ing form presiding
Verb forms
- Base form
- preside
- He/she/it
- presides
- Past
- presided
- Past participle
- presided
- -ing form
- presiding
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His sisters were very anxious for his having an estate of his own; but though he was now established only as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table; nor was Mrs.
About a year ago, she was taken from school, and an establishment formed for her in London; and last summer she went with the lady who presided over it to Ramsgate; and thither also went Mr.
Albert had himself presided at the arrangement, or, rather, the symmetrical derangement, which, after coffee, the guests at a breakfast of modern days love to contemplate through the vapor that escapes from their mouths, and ascends in long and fanciful wreaths to the ceiling.
Danglars was engaged at that moment, presiding over a railroad committee.
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