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Presentation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of presenting.

2. Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.

3. Exhibition; representation; display; as the presentation of fighting on the stage.

4. In ecclesiastical law, the act of offering a clerk to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice. An advowson is he right of presentation

5. If the bishop admits the patron's presentation the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.

6. The right of presenting a clerk. The patron has the presentation of the benefice.

Presentation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.

2. exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show.

3. That which is presented or given; a present; a gift, as, the picture was a presentation.

4. The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.

5. The particular position of the child during labor relatively to the passage though which it is to be brought forth; -- specifically designated by the part which first appears at the mouth of the uterus; as, a breech presentation.