PRESENTA'TION, n. The act of presenting.
Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.
1. Exhibition; representation; display; as the presentation of fighting on the stage.
2. 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.
If the bishop admits the patron's presentation, the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.
3. The right of presenting a clerk. The patron has the presentation of the benefice.
