'Presentative' definitions:

Definition of 'Presentative'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage. --Spelman. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Metaph.) Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties. [1913 Webster]
  • The latter term, presentative faculty, I use . . . in contrast and correlation to a "representative faculty." --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]