PRESENT'ATIVE, adjective In ecclesiastical affairs, that has the right of presentation, or offering a clerk to the bishop for institution. Advowsons are presentative collative or donative. An advowson presentative is where the patron hath a right of presentation to the bishop or ordinary. 1. That admits the presentation of a clerk; as a presentative parsonage.
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