Presentation

In ecclesiastical law. QSie act of a patron or proprietor of a llving in offering or presenting a clerk to the ordinary to be instituted in the benefice.

— Presentation office. The office of the lord chancellor's official, the secretary of presentations, who conducts all correspondence having reference to the twelve canonries and six hundred and fifty livings in the gift of the lord chancellor, and,draws and issues the fiats of appointment. Sweet.