Dictionary

presential en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /pɹɪˈzɛnʃəl/
• /pɹɪˈzɛnʃiəl/

Etymology

From Late Latin praesentiālis.

Meanings

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.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:
3. (archaic) Pertaining to the present tense.

Forms

Deriveds

omnipresential · presentialness

Relateds

presentially · presentiality