presentability (pre zen tabi lit i)

[ People perversely wore their old boots, which had long pa ed the season of presentability . Pop . Sci . Mo. , XXXIII. 447. presentable (pre-zen'ta-bl), a. [ is at hand, ready, This ilke infynyt moveynge of temporel thinges folweth this present ary est at of lyf unmoevable. Chaucer , Boëthius, v. prose 6. presentation (prez-en-tā'shon), n. [ presentation , F. présent at i on présent at i on = = Sp . Sp. present a cion = Pg . present ação = It. present azione , sentatio (n-), a placing before, an exhibition, præsent are , entare , pp. præse præsent at us , place before, exhibit: see present2 , v.] 1. The act, especially the ceremonious act, of presenting a gift, prize, trophy, donation, or the like: as, the present a tion of a medal to a fireman; the presentation of a stand of colors to a regiment; the presen tation of an organ to a church.-2. The act of presenting or offering as for recognition, acceptance, etc. Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. After the presentation of his letters of credence, it is then the duty of a minister, if accredited to a sovereign, to ask for presentation to the Queen or Empre . E. Schuyler , Amer. Diplomacy, p. 138. 3. That which is presented; a gift; an offering. [Rare.] Aloft on the waters, the height or top of an olive tree did shew itself, whereof the dove brought a presentation to the good old man. Time's Storehouse , p. 154. ( Latham .) 4. A representation; exhibition; appearance; show; semblance. I call'd thee then poor shadow, painted queen; The presentation of but what I was. Shak., Rich. III., iv. 4. 84. These presentations of fighting on the stage are nece ary to produce the effects of an heroick play. Dryden . 5. ( a ) In eccles . law , a patron's act of offering to a bishop, presbytery, or other properly constituted authority a candidate for induction into a benefice. See patronage , 3. It differs from nomination in this, that, while present a tion signifies offering a clerk to the bishop for institution, nomination signifies offering a clerk to the patron in order that he may be presented. Hook . Hence-( b ) The nomination by one ecclesiastical authority of a candidate to be appointed by another. In the Protestant Episcopal Church the right of presentation to the bishop is lodged in the vestry or other parish authorities. (c) The right of presenting a clergyman. If the bishop admits the patron's presentation, the Black stone, Com., I. xi. clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him. 6. In obstet., the appearance of a particular part of the fetus at the superior pelvic strait during labor. The most frequent form is vertex pres entation, or presentation of the upper and back part of the fetal head. For each presentation there are several positions. See position, 10. 7. A cognitive modification of consciousne ; an idea; a representation. This use of the word has recently been introduced to translate the German vorstel lung, the term used by Wolff to translate the Latin repræ sentatio. None of these words has ever been scientifically defined, and they are used, like their synonym idea, with vague variations of meaning. Of these, the following appear to be types: (a) An idea in general; any mental object subject Mrs. Lovell was informed that the baronet had been addre ing his son, who was fresh from Paris, and not, in his own modest opinion, presentable before a lady. G. Meredith , Rhoda Fleming, xxxii. (6) Capable of being offered for perception or understanding; capable of being made known as, an idea present able only in language. If a key fits a lock, or a glove a hand, the relation of the things to one another is presentable to the perceptions. H. Spencer , Nineteenth Century, XIX. 750. (c) Suitable for being offered as a gift. 2. Eccles.: (a) Capable of being presented to a church living: as, a presentable clerk. (b) Capable of receiving the presentation of a clerk: as, "churches presentable, " Ayliffe, Parergon. By the di olution of religious houses, all appropriations had been presentable like other churches, if the statute of di olution had not given them to the king. Spelman , On Tythes, xxix. 2. presental (prē-zen'tal), n . [ present2 + -al . ] Same as presentment . [Rare.] As illustrations of the author's presental of different sides of a subject, we give two extracts. Chicago Advance, Jan. 14, 1869. he be bathing, and disturbing the church, present ane oust (prez-en-ta'nē-us), a. [L.præ Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 213. sentaneus, momentary, that operates quickly, presentations and perceptions, the latter into sensations and cognitions, the latter again into intuitions and concepts, and the latter into empirical and pure concepts. All that variety of mental facts which we speak of as sensations, perceptions, images, intuitions, concepts, notions, have two characteristics in common: (1) they admit of being more or le attended to, and (2) can be reproduced and a ociated together. It is here proposed to use the term presentation to connote such a mental fact, and as the best English equivalent for what Locke meant by idea and what Kant and Herbart called a Vors tel lung. J. Ward , Encyc. Brit., XX. 41. (b) A figurate conception; a product of the imagination. The term presentation [German vors tel lung ], which Hegel employs to name these "picture-thoughts" or "figurate conceptions." corresponds to the facts of their nature. A presentation is one of two things: either a particular thing taken under general aspects, or a universal narrowed down to a particular thing. Thus, as it has been seen, a general name expre es a universal relation or attribute, but confines it to a particular object or cla . Wallace, Prolegomena to Hegel's Logic, xii. (c) A direct percept; a presentative cognition. The percept involves the immediate a urance of the presence of the whole object. Hence, psychologists speak of percepts in their totality as presentations . Sully , Psychology, vi. 8. The proce of formation of a presentation bond Feast Bond of presentation, in Scots law isee in sense 7.- Mary , a festival in the Roman Catholic and Greek churches presentation celebrated on November 21st. Also Isodia. (b) Of Christ in the Temple, a festival celebrated on February 2d, in the Greek, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other churches, commonly called the Feast of the Purification: same as Candle mas. - Order of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary, a Roman Catholic religious order of nuns, founded in Ireland in 1777. Religious instruction to poor girls is a specialty of the order.