foresitter

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"1. Or foresitter, i. e. President."
"Hefele finds that some Roman Bishop is spoken of as praesidens, that is foresitting in other Ecumenical Councils (419), or that Hosius is mentioned as having been a leader (ἡγήσατο) in Councils (420), and he immediately jumps to the conclusion that he was the only foresitter and the only leader, and in brief the Chairman or President of the Council."
"A more especially folk-term is O[ld] H[igh] G[erman] truhsâze, M[iddle] H[igh] G[erman] truhtsaeze, Old Friesian drusta, Swedish drottsät, drots, Danish drost, the foresitter of the truht group, and later an important court-official, the representative of the king, truchsess, also the chief of the royal larder."
"Neverlotwithstanding, we will ask the foresitters of our stemmlocals that they ask for your hexpertise in eclectical fraud, so that all our stemms are telled^([sic]) like they must."
"The foresitter of a cantref, namely the footholder, gives a vat of bragget to the king each year."

From fore- (“before”) + sitter or foresit + -er. Compare Latin praesidēns (“leader”, literally “sitting before”) and Old English foresittan (“to preside”, literally “to sit before”).

foresitters (plural)