presentative — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Presenting, or able to represent, an idea in the mind.

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   Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which are representative, or, as used to be said very clumsily, imitative; and those, like architecture, music, and the dance, which are self-sufficient, and merely presentative.

   Now the face is a traditional metonym for divine presence in Jewish theology and, in its human form, the presentative image of God.

2. Of a benefice, or the advowsons, tithes, etc., associated with a benefice: that a patron has the right to present.

   Antonyms

   donative

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   Mrs. Ellen Gulſton, Relict of Theodore Gulſton, Doctor of Phyſick, a very Learned Man, being poſſeſſed of the Impropriate Parſonage of Bardvvell in Suffolk, did firſt procure from the King leave to annex the ſame to the Vicarage, and to make it Preſentative; and having formerly the Donation of the Vicarage, ſhe gave them both thus annexed freely to St. John’s College in Oxon: Expreſſing many Godly Reaſons in a pious Letter of her Grant, to advance the Glory of God to her Povver, &c.

   Advowsons are also either preſentative, collative, or donative. An advowſon preſentative is where the patron hath a right of preſentation to the biſhop or ordinary, and moreover to demand of him to inſtitute his clerk, if he finds him canonically qualified: and this is the moſt uſual advowſon.

3. Serving to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor.

4. Of or pertaining to a presentation (“an image formed in the mind after an object is perceived”).

5. Synonym of representative (“representing another, or representing a larger group”).

   Usage

   • Obsolete

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   [T]hat diſloyal Maxime, that the body of the State is above the King, is contradicted by the ordinary ſtyle of their papers preſented to the King by his Body: The Two Houſes [of Parliament] moſt humbly beſeech their Soveraign Lord the King, and they qualifie themſelves, the moſt humble and Loyal ſubjects of his Majestie, ’tis the Preſentative Body of the Kingdome who ſpeaks, and nothing by way of Complement but Duty: […]

6. Of or pertaining to an act of presenting or giving an object to someone.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Rare

Noun

1. A construct that serves to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor.