Dictionary entry

Presentive

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.