Presentative Definition

prĭ-zĕntə-tĭv
adjective
Known or capable of being known directly, as by sense perception.
Webster's New World
Having the ability to perceive something directly.
American Heritage Medicine
Designating a benefice to or for which a patron has the right of presentation.
Webster's New World
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Presentative Sentence Examples

  • Advowsons are, further distinguished into presentative and collative.

  • He leaves it undetermined whether or not our knowledge of sense things, which is never entirely presentative, involves some reference to this objective course of nature or thought of the divine mind.

  • In a presentative advowson, the patron presents a clergyman to the bishop, with the petition that he be instituted into the vacant living.

  • Before 1898 there were also donative advowsons, but the Benefices Act 1898 made all donations with cure of souls presentative.

  • Parson imparsonee (persona impersonata) is he that as rector is in possession of a church parochial, and of whom the church is full, whether it be presentative or impropriate (Coke upon Littleton, 300 b).

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