Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRE-SENT'A-TIVE, a.

1. 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 makes a right of presentation to the bishop or ordinary. – Blackstone.
2. That admits the presentation of a clerk; as, a presentative parsonage. – Spelman.