presentiveadj.n.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue v. 195 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.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue v. 198 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.

1883 Q. 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.

1904 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 25 163 This is true not only in the case of presentive words, i. e. nouns, adjectives, and verbs..but also in that of symbolic words.

1877 Mind 2 335 Every Presentative cognition involves and requires Representation, and every Representative has a Presentive element.]

1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 2 248 Suppose that the presentive activity of β is at a maximum and α is sinking, when γ appears...When δ appears, the presentive activity of γ is at a maximum.

1928 Educ. Res. Bull. 7 6 The organization and presentive features of the books are found to be as diversified as the contents.

1948 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 6 269 The first is presentive graphics, all on the surface, no depth shown.

1969 Hist. Educ. Q. 9 244 A third analysis, that according to teaching procedure (e.g. ‘purely presentive’, ‘analytic’, ‘synthetic’).

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue v. 210 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.

1877 J. Earle in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 6 15 One sort of words..which we may call by the common name of presentives.

1932 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 52 309 A familiar distinction between words is that between presentives..and symbolic words.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue v. 200 In Chaucer's (ed. 5) Prologue it [sc. the word thing] occurs twice presentively.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue v. 202 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.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue viii. 389 The pronoun I..has also a sort of reflected or borrowed presentiveness, which I propose to call a sub-presentive power.