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Webster 1913 Edition
Presentative
Pre-sent′a-tive
,Adj.
1.
(Eccl.)
Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution;
as, advowsons are
. presentative
, collative, or donativeBlackstone.
2.
Admitting the presentation of a clergyman;
as, a
. presentative
parsonageSpelman.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Presentative
PRESENT'ATIVE
,Adj.
An advowson presentative is where the patron hath a right of presentation to the bishop or ordinary.
1.
That admits the presentation of a clerk; as a presentative parsonage.