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Definition of Presentee
1. n. One to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice.
Definition of Presentee
1. Noun. A person who is presented, or to whom an award is given ¹
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Definition of Presentee
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presentee
Literary usage of Presentee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1841)
"They sustained the sign-manual as a presentation—they call the pursuer "
presentee"—they apply to his case the Act and Regulations of 1834, though in terms ..."
2. The Church History of Scotland: From the Commencement of the Christian Era by John Cunningham (1882)
"Accordingly, on the 7th of July following, the presbytery rejected Mr Young.2 When
this decision was intimated to the presentee's agent, he appealed to the ..."
3. The Liberty of the Press, Speech, and Public Worship: Being Commentaries on by James Paterson (1880)
"Fitness of presentee for institution.—Though a patr-- may present to a benefice,
it seems to have been always the doctrine of the canon law, that the bishop ..."
4. The Liberty of the Press, Speech, and Public Worship: Being Commentaries on by James Paterson (1880)
"Though a patron may present to a benefice, it seems to have been always the
doctrine of the canon law, that the bishop must decide whether the presentee is ..."
5. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of the by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1842)
"Is the Presbytery to call on the patron for another presentee ? That cannot be
maintained under the judgments. " Again—Is there delay merely between the ..."
6. The Scottish Christian Herald (1840)
"I. That hereafter, in carrying through the settlement of a minister in any parish,
if, when the presentation and the presentee's relative letter of ..."
7. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Spec, appointee, postulate, presentee. none, pron. not any, not one. nonentity, n.
1. See NONEXISTENCE, NO- BODT. Antonyms: see ALL. ..."
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