presentative
Presenting, or able to represent, an idea in the mind.
Adjective
- Presenting, or able to represent, an idea in the mind.
- 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,...
- 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...
- Of a benefice, or the advowsons, tithes, etc., associated with a benefice: that a patron has the right to present.
- 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...
- 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,...
Antonyms: donative
- Serving to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor.
- Of or pertaining to a presentation (“an image formed in the mind after an object is perceived”).
- Synonym of representative (“representing another, or representing a larger group”).
- [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...
Synonyms: representative
- Of or pertaining to an act of presenting or giving an object to someone.
Origin
The adjective is derived from Late Latin praesentativus (“that presents for consideration”) + English -ive (suffix signifying belonging or relating to, of the nature of, serving to, or tending to, forming adjectives). Praesentativus is from Latin praesentātus (“presented, exhibited, or shown”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives); while praesentātus is the perfect passive participle of praesentō (“to present, exhibit, or show”), from praesēns (“at hand, present; existing; immediate; prompt; propitious; (grammar) present”) (the present active participle of praesum (“to be before something; to be in charge of; to command, lead; to preside or rule over”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before, in front; in charge’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sum (“to be, exist, have”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”))) + -tō (frequentative suffix)....
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Noun
- A construct that serves to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor.