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Pre*sent"a*tive (?), a. 1. (Eccl.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. Blackstone.

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.

Pres`en*tee" (?), n. [F. prÈsentÈ, p. p. See Present, v. t. ] One to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice. Ayliffe.

Pre*sent"er (?), n. One who presents.

Pre*sen"tial (?), a. [LL. praesentialis.] Implying actual presence; present, immediate. [Obs.]

God's mercy is made presential to us.

Jer. Taylor.

-- Pre*sen"tial*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Pre*sen`ti*al"i*ty (?), n. State of being actually present. [Obs.] South.

Pre*sen"ti*ate (?), v. t. To make present. [Obs.]

Pre*sen"tient (?), a. [L. praesentiens, p. pr. of praesentire to perceive beforehand; prae before + sentire to feel.] Feeling or perceiving beforehand.

Pres`en*tif"ic (?), a. [L. praesens, -entis, present + facere to make.] Making present. [Obs.]

-- Pres`en*tif"ic*ly, adv. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Pres`en*tif"ic*al (?), a. Presentific. [Obs.]

Pre*sen"ti*ment (?), n. [Pref. pre- + sentiment: cf. F. pressentiment. See Presentient.] Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.

Pre*sen`ti*men"tal (?), a. Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. [R.] Coleridge.

Pre*sen"tion (?), n. See Presension. [Obs.]

Pre*sent"ive (?), a. (Philol.) Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic.

How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries.

Earle.

-- Pre*sent"ive*ly, adv. -- Pre*sent"ive*ness, n.

Pres"ent*ly (?), adv. 1. At present; at this time; now. [Obs.]

The towns and forts you presently have.

Sir P. Sidney.

2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak.