Hypertext Webster Gateway: "presentative"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

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