Home › Words › F › foresitterforesitterforesitter means one who presides; a president.EtymologyFrom fore- (“before”) + sitter or foresit + -er. Compare Latin praesidēns (“leader”, literally “sitting before”) and Old English foresittan (“to preside”, literally “to sit before”).nounOne who presides; a president.e.g.“1. Or foresitter, i. e. President.” — 1852, Alfred the Great, translated by E. Thomson, “King Alfred’s Version of Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation; […]”, in The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great: […], JubilDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).