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presentative |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as a presentative parsonage. --Spelman. 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.
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