\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.