Pre-sĕnt'a-tive, a.

a. 1. (Eccl.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.

An advowson presentative is where the patron hath a right of presentation to the bishop or ordinary. Blackstone.

2Sense 2. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage. Spelman.

3Sense 3. (Metaph.) Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible; — applied to objects; capable of apprehending; — applied to faculties.

The latter term, presentative faculty, I use, as you will see, in contrast and correlation to a “representative faculty.” Sir W. Hamilton.