presentativeadj.n.

1559 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. App. viii. 22 Foundations of free-chappels..to be donatyve and not presentatyve.

1612 W. Travers Supplic. to Priuy Counsel 8 The place of ministery, wherevnto I was called, was not presentatiue.

1646 Spelman's De non Temer. Eccl. b j The same remedy both for the presentative and impropriate Tithe.

1648 P. Heylyn Vndeceiving of People 30 The Churches will no longer be presentative at the choice of the Patron; but either made Elective at the will of the People, or else Collated by the Trustees of the severall Counties (succeeding..in the power of Bishops).

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. iii. 22 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 find him canonically qualified: and this is the most usual advowson.

1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms at Dean [This] deanery is not presentative, but donative.

1952 Eng. Hist. Rev. 67 482 The presentative advowson may be regarded as normal by the late twelfth century.

1990 K. Fincham Prelate as Pastor vi. 188 Both Rowlands and Parry tried to prevent presentative benefices, which could support an incumbent, being converted into lay impropriations.

1598 tr. G. de La Perrière Mirrour Policie sig. Aaiij The manlike hand of the Poet Claudian that hath so well and eloquently set downe the presentatiue Epigram of the said gift.

1642 Lett. from Gentleman to Friend in London 4 If the Parliament without the King make the presentative body, the King is the reall head to that body of the kingdome.

1653 H. Whistler Aime at Up-shot Infant Baptisme 22 Christ being God the Son, spake in the glory, the Majesty presentative of Christ.

1653 H. Whistler Aime at Up-shot Infant Baptisme 86 The Angell visionally, presentative Christ our Redeemer.

1846 Sir W. Hamilton Note B in Reid's Wks. I. 805/1 An immediate cognition, in as much as the thing known is itself presented to observation, may be called a presentative; and in as much as the thing presented, is, as it were, viewed by the mind face to face, may be called an intuitive, cognition. A mediate cognition, in as much as the thing known is held up or mirrored to the mind in a vicarious representation, may be called a representative cognition... In a presentative or immediate cognition there is one sole object.

1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. ii. xvii. 284 Perception is a discerning of the relation or relations between states of consciousness, partly presentative and partly representative.

a1881 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric (1883) 176 This division of outer and inner seems to correspond with those between impressions and ideas, sensations and thoughts, and primary or presentative or vivid, and secondary or representative or faint states of consciousness.

1958 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 71 443 The first view amounts to a presentative theory of ideas, for it holds that ideas are simply those objects with which the knower is directly presented.

1992 Philos. East & West 42 432 Our reception of verbally communicated information is not intuitively felt to be direct or presentative in nature.

1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) i. 37 That phrase, ‘a great water’,..is an instance of the intense presentative power of Mr. Tennyson's genius.

1885 R. L. Stevenson in Contemp. Rev. Apr. 550 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.

1954 Ethics 64 198/1 Literary art has succeeded more and more in fusing the presentative and comprehensive phases, so as to tell the reader what a character is merely by presenting him as he appears.

2000 Nation (Nexis) 30 Oct. 30 Poets writing in English today still rely on the early-twentieth-century Imagist principles of clarity, directness, presentative imagery and rhythm based on cadences.

1972 D. Bolinger in Language 48 634 Presentative verbs like I have and there is..tend to focus on the noun.

1997 W. B. McGregor Semiotic Gram. vii. 309 The class of presentative clauses is characterized by the fact that as clauses they do nothing more than introduce, point to, new entities.

2002 Y. Matras Romani vii. 170 Predicates that are more likely to trigger VS [= verb-subject ordering] are those involved in presentative constructions, such as existentials and some verbs of motion.

1976 J. Blau Gram. Biblical Hebrew 105 Not only minor clauses..but also major sentences may be introduced by presentatives, as Gen 37,25..‘and, behold, a company of Ishmaelites was coming’.

1982 S. C. Levinson Pragmatics ii. 65 There are usually a few words in a language that can only be used gesturally: for example there are presentatives like French voici, and toasts like British English cheers.

2000 R. Ball Colloq. French Gram. vi. 147 The y a presentative introduces cinq-six bateaux as a non-topic noun phrase.

1860 H. Spencer in Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 25 71 Presentative-representative cognitions; or those in which consciousness is occupied with the relation between a sensation or group of sensations and the representations of those various other sensations that accompany it in experience. This is what we commonly call perception.

1897 tr. T. A. Ribot Psychol. Emotions 55 Then pleasure becomes an anticipation, as in the case of the dog when his food is being brought to him; to employ the term used by Herbert Spenser, it is a presentative-representative state.

1916 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 20 455 For a presentative-representative theory of knowledge the crisis of the argument comes in dealing with truth and error.