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.
© Webster 1913.