præsenting

Verb

 * 1) * 1780s, and Franklin Bowditch Dexter, The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, C. Scribner’s Sons in 1901, page 41:
 * Hav * conferred the Degrees in the Arts, I then proceeded to confer the Doctorate, first præsenting Professor Wales to the Fellows or Senatus academicus as worthy of that Honor.
 * Hav * conferred the Degrees in the Arts, I then proceeded to confer the Doctorate, first præsenting Professor Wales to the Fellows or Senatus academicus as worthy of that Honor.