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presentive, a. (n.)|prɪˈzɛntɪv|
[irreg. f. present v. + -ive; used for distinction from the etymologically regular presentative.]
Presenting an object or conception directly to the mind (opp. to symbolic); also n., a presentive word. Hence preˈsentively adv.; preˈsentiveness.
1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (1873) §227 We will call these two classes of words by the names of Presentive and Symbolic. The Presentive are those..which present any conception to the mind. Ibid. §230 The numerals I and II and III and IIII are presentive of the ideas of one and two and three and four... The figures 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 are and always were pure symbols. Ibid. §232 In Chaucer's Prologue it [the word thing] occurs twice presentively. Ibid. §235 The word shall offers a good example of the movement from presentiveness to symbolism. When it flourished as a presentive word, it signified to owe. Ibid. §244 A passage with many proper names and titles in it may, however, bring the presentives up to, or even cause them to surpass, the number of the symbolics. Ibid. §464 The pronoun I..has also a sort of reflected or borrowed presentiveness, which we will call a subpresentive power. 1883Q. Rev. Jan. 187 If, as some philologists maintain, the development of a language is to be estimated by the proportion it shows of ‘symbolic’ as opposed to ‘presentive’ words. |