PRESENTA'TION, noun The act of presenting. Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires. 1. Exhibition; representation; display; as the presentation of fighting on the stage. 2. In ecclesiastical law, the act of offering a clerk to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice. An advowson is he right of presentation If the bishop admits the patron's presentation the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him. 3. The right of presenting a clerk. The patron has the presentation of the benefice.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI