Category:Presentative

Pre*sent"a*tive, a.

1. (eccl.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: 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.