Presentee

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

  Presentee \Pres`en*tee"\, n. [F. pr['e]sent['e], p. p. See
     {Present}, v. t. ]
     One to whom something is presented; also, one who is
     presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice.
     --Ayliffe.
     [1913 Webster]



From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PRESENTEE, eccl. law., A clerk who has been presented by his patron to a 
  bishop in order to be instituted in a church.