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presential, a. Now rare.|prɪˈzɛnʃəl|
Also præ-.
[ad. med.L. præsentiālis present (Du Cange), f. L. præsenti-a presence: see -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to presence; having or implying actual presence with a person or in a place; present.
1635R. Brathwait Five Senses, Contin. v. 143 To see the presentiall countenance of God with the blessed and Elect. 1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. xiv. 204 By fiction of Law..the paines of Hell are made presentiall to him. 1724R. Welton Chr. Faith & Pract. 34 He has been pleased to exhibit to us a presential communication of Himself. 1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Barrenn. Imag. Faculty, What associating league to the imagination can there be between the seers, and the seers not, of a presential miracle?
2. Mentally present; having presence of mind; attentive to the matter in hand: = present a. 4.
1649Ambrose Media xi. (1652) 291 One hath quickness of parts,..another is solid, but not so ready and presential. 1815Lamb Let. to Wordsw. in Final Mem. vi. 244, I lose all presential memory of what I had intended to say.
3. Pertaining or relating to present time.
1846Mozley Ess., Carlyle's Cromwell (1878) I. 232 The two worlds of futurity have a praesential existence as of imagery within the mind.
b. Gram. Applied to those tenses of a verb formed on the present stem.
1898W. M. Ramsay Was Christ born in Bethlehem? vi. 124 Here the presential tenses [ἀπογράϕεσθαι and ἐπορεύοντο] are necessitated by the sense; all persons, individually and severally, repaired to their proper cities for their respective enrolment.
Hence † preˈsentialist Obs. nonce-wd., a believer in the Real Presence: see presence 1 c, real a.2 2 b.
a1655Vines Lord's Supp. iii. (1657) 50 As the Romish Præsentialists and Schoolmen dream. |