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.
© Webster 1913.