presentative

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Webster's Dictionary (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]
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