Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Perceived or capable of being perceived directly rather than through association.
- adjective Having the ability to perceive something directly.
- adjective Ecclesiastical Of or relating to a patron's right of presentation to a benefice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ecclesiastical law: Having the right of presentation: as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.
- Admitting the presentation of a clerk: as, a presentative parsonage.
- In metaphysics: Consisting of or pertaining to immediate, proximate, or intuitive apprehension or cognition: opposed to representative.
- Cognitive; pertaining to knowledge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Eccl.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution.
- adjective Admitting the presentation of a clergyman.
- adjective (Metaph.) Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind;
intuitive ; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties. - adjective ecclesiastical, law Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution
- adjective Admitting the presentation of a clergyman
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Examples
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In an oral presentative and a five-page summary of hundreds of pages of work, Heymann said, he and his colleagues recommended the creation of “an organizational structure that could draw” on the experience of a small corps of the best interrogators currently working for the government who “could produce what would very likely be the best non-coercive interrogation or interviewing capacity in the world.”
Sneak Preview: The Obama Interrogation Task Force | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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As you can see, the reaction to Gordon Brown comprises 5 Labour MPs, 6 Union Leaders, a presentative each from Greenpace and CND but no opposition MPs and just 3 of those reactions were in any way less than completely positive about the speech.
BBC Bias - they don't even hide it now Not a sheep 2007
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Now, whether the presentative faculty of the soul be identical with, or different from, the faculty of sense-perception, in either case the illusion does not occur without our actually seeing or [otherwise] perceiving something.
On Dreams Aristotle 2002
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Now, whether the presentative faculty of the soul be identical with, or different from, the faculty of sense-perception, in either case the illusion does not occur without our actually seeing or [otherwise] perceiving something.
On Dreams Aristotle 2002
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That what we here urge is true, i.e. that there are such presentative movements in the sensory organs, any one may convince himself, if he attends to and tries to remember the affections we experience when sinking into slumber or when being awakened.
On Dreams Aristotle 2002
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That what we here urge is true, i.e. that there are such presentative movements in the sensory organs, any one may convince himself, if he attends to and tries to remember the affections we experience when sinking into slumber or when being awakened.
On Dreams Aristotle 2002
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Mlatsheni as their presentative in the negotiations.
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Owing to this fact, any ordinary act of perception is said to contain both presentative and representative elements.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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In the above example, for instance, the colour would be spoken of as a presentative element, because it is immediately presented to the mind in sensuous terms, or through the senses.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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It is because they always involve the immediate presence of some physical object, that the sensation elements involved in ordinary perception are spoken of as immediate, or presentative, elements of knowledge.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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