presentive Meaning, Definition & Usage

Pre*sent"ive adjective
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913