| a. | 1. | (Eccl.) 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. | (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. |