presentative

comparative more presentative · superlative most presentative

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

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

   2003, Melissa Raphael, “Holiness in Extremis: Jewish Women’s Resistance to the Profane in Auschwitz”, in Stephen C. Barton, editor, Holiness: Past and Present, London; New York, N.Y.: T&T Clark, →ISBN, part 4 (Holiness and Contemporary Issues), page 382

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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.

   1885 April, Robert Louis Stevenson, “[Later Essays.] On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature.”, in Sidney Colvin, editor, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh edition, volume XI (Miscellanies, volume III), Edinburgh: […] T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable for Longmans Green and Co.; […], published 1895, →OCLC, page 239

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

   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.

   1766, William Blackstone, “Of Incorporeal Hereditaments”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book II (Of the Rights of Things), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 22

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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.

   1704, Henry Spelman, “An Account of the Worth of This Treatise, Taken Out of the Epistle to Sir Henry Spelman’s History of Tythes”, in De Non Temerandis Ecclesiis, Churches Not to Be Violated. A Tract of the Rights and Respects Due unto Churches. […], 6th edition, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […]; republished in Two Tracts […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], 1704, →OCLC

   Antonyms: donative

3. grammarServing to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor.
4. metaphysicshuman sciencesOf or pertaining to a presentation (“an image formed in the mind after an object is perceived”).
5. obsoleteSynonym of representative (“representing another, or representing a larger group”).

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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: […]

   1659, [Pierre Du Moulin], “Declaring wherein the Legislative Powers of Parliament Consists”, in [Matthew Playford], transl., The History of the English & Scotch Presbytery. […], Villa Franca [actually London: […] s.n.], →OCLC, page 72

   Synonyms: representative

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

plural presentatives

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