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