presential

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 (i.e., not involving online, virtual or remote interaction)

   Presential learning

   Presential work

2. (now rare) Implying actual presence; present. [from 15th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.13:

     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.

   • 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.

3. (grammar, now rare) Pertaining to the present tense. [from 19th c.]

Related terms

• presentiality
• presentially

Anagrams

• Alpestrine, Pearlstein, alpestrine, episternal, interlapse, interpales, interpleas, plenarties, salipenter