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.