presential
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin praesentiālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]presential (comparative more presential, superlative most presential)
- In-person, on-premises, face-to-face (that is, not involving online, virtual or remote interaction).
- presential learning presential work
- (archaic) Implying actual presence; present. [from 15th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XIII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] 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 [Psychathanasia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Poem of the Immortality of Souls, Especially Mans Soul”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] 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[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:
- God's mercies are made presential to us.
- (grammar, archaic) Pertaining to the present tense. [from 19th c.]