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Presentative

presentative
1. Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.
2. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage.
3. (Science: psychology) 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)

Last updated on January 19th, 2021

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