Category:Presentive

Pre*sent"ive, a. (philol.)

Defn: bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; Presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished From symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in The last three centuries. Earle. -- pre*sent"ive*ly, adv. -- pre*sent"ive*ness, n.