Thesaurus: presentative

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1. a. Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.
2. a. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage.
3. a. Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.
4. 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.
5. Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman tothe bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative,collative, or donative. Blackstone.
6. a. Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. a. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage. a. Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.