Presides
verb
verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 third-person singular simple present indicative of preside form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Example
More examples"There, ministering justice, she presides, / and deals the law, and from her throne of state, / as choice determines or as chance decides, / to each, in equal share, his separate task divides. / Sudden, behold a concourse. Looking down, / his late-lost friends AEneas sees again, / Segestus, brave Cloanthus of renown, / Antheus and others of the Trojan train, / whom the black squall had scattered o'er the main, / and driven afar upon an alien strand."
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