Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Presentive \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.