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Presentative
CIDE DICTIONARY
Presentative, a.
- Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage. Spelman. [1913 Webster]
- 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.”" [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Presentative, adj.
1 Philos. subject to direct cognition.
2 hist. (of a benefice) to which a patron has the right of presentation.
1 Philos. subject to direct cognition.
2 hist. (of a benefice) to which a patron has the right of presentation.
Etymology
prob. f. med.L (as PRESENTATION)
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