• (a.) Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/presentive/
Pre·sent'ive adjective (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.... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/155