01 a. Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.
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Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.(Eccl.)
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Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage.
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Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.(Metaph.)“The latter term, presentative faculty, I use . . . in contrast and correlation to a “representative faculty.”” — Sir W. Hamilton.