presential

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English

Etymology

From Late Latin praesentiālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹɪˈzɛnʃiəl/, /pɹɪˈzɛnʃəl/

Adjective

presential (comparative more presential, superlative most presential)

  1. In-person, on-premises, face-to-face (that is, not involving online, virtual or remote interaction).
    presential learning    presential work
  2. (archaic) Implying actual presence; present.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XIII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book III, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:
      Going a foote, I shall durty my selfe up to my waste; and little men, going alongst our streets, are subject (for want of presentiall apparence) to be justled or elbowed.
    • 1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΑ Platonica: Or A Platonicall Poem of the Immortality of Souls, Especially Mans Soul”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC, book 3, canto 1, stanza 21, page 61:
      The ſunne and all the ſtarres that do appear / She [Psyche] feels them in herſelf, can diſtance all, / For ſhe is at each one purely preſentiall.
    • 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: , London: E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R Royston, , →OCLC:
      God's mercies are made presential to us.
  3. (grammar, archaic) Pertaining to the present tense.

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