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Presentative adj.

(Eccl.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.

Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage.

(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.""

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Etymology of 'Presentative'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Presentative" Quotes from Famous Books

... deliberate operations, performed, as they are, by means of representative ideas implying the use of a reflective representative faculty. Such actions distinguish the intellect or rational faculty. Now, we assert that possession in perfection of all the first four (presentative) kinds of action by no means implies the possession of the last two (representative) kinds. All persons, we think, must admit the ...

— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley