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Presentative

Presentative \Pre*sent"a*tive\, a.

  1. (Eccl.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.
    --Blackstone.

  2. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage.
    --Spelman.

  3. (Metaph.) Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.

    The latter term, presentative faculty, I use . . . in contrast and correlation to a ``representative faculty.''
    --Sir W. Hamilton.

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presentative

a. 1 Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties. 2 (context ecclesiastical legal English) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution. 3 Admitting the presentation of a clergyman.