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| | President - From the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside), a style or title of various connotation, but always conveying the sense of one who presides. |
 | | In classical Latin the title praeses, or president, was given to all governors of provinces, but was confined in the time of Diocletian to the procurators who, as lieutenants of the emperor, governed the smaller provinces. |
 | | Du Cange gives instances from the capitularies of Charlemagne of the style ~raeses provinciae as applied to the count; and later examples of praeses, or praesidens, as used of royal seneschals and other officials having jurisdiction under the Crown. |
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