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noun

Presidency n. (pl. presidencies)

The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.

The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency.

The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison.

One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president.

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... time for the presidency. His presidential career was characteristic of the man and ...

— Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader • John L. Huelshof

... it a big job to take Paris if the Parisians keep to their present mood. Mr. Washburne told me yesterday that he does not think he shall leave. There is to be a consultation of the Corps Diplomatique to-morrow, under the presidency of the Nuncio, to settle joint action. I admire the common sense of Mr. Washburne. He called two days ago upon the Government to express his sympathy with them. Not being a man of forms and red tape, instead of going to the Foreign-office, he went to the Hotel de Ville, found ...

— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere

... forced to act with vigour, was obliged to place the churches under an interdict. He could not spare time to remain any longer at Isabella, but was in haste to make further discoveries; therefore, having formed a council, composed of three gentlemen and the chief of the missionaries, under the presidency of Don Diego, to govern the colony, he set out on the 24th of April with three vessels, to complete ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part I. The Exploration of the World • Jules Verne

... poet Young, "with sanguine cheer and streamers gay, we cut our cable, launch into the world, and fondly dream each wind and star our friend." How many youths have believed they would, by merit alone, rise to the Presidency of ...

— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern

... private contributions and the zeal of some educated Hindu patriots, two free classes of Sanskrit and Pali had already been opened—one in Bombay by the Theosophical Society, the other in Benares under the presidency of the learned Rama-Misra-Shastri. In the present year, 1882, the Theosophical Society has, altogether, fourteen schools in ...

— From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan • Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky

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