presential
adj/pɹɪˈzɛnʃiəl/ · /pɹɪˈzɛnʃəl/
Etymology From Late Latin praesentiālis.
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.
- 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XIII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- 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.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:
1 more example
- God's mercies are made presential to us.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:
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Archaic Pertaining to the present tense.
- Derived terms
- omnipresential, presentialness
- Related terms
- presentiality, presentially