Presentative

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Presentative \Pre*sent"a*tive\, a.
     1. (Eccl.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a
        clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are
        presentative, collative, or donative. --Blackstone.
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     2. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a
        presentative parsonage. --Spelman.
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     3. (Metaph.) Capable of being directly known by, or presented
        to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as
        objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.
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              The latter term, presentative faculty, I use . . .
              in contrast and correlation to a "representative
              faculty."                             --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
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