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Present
PRES'ENT, a. s as z. [L. proesens; proe and sum, esse, to be.]
1. Being in a certain place; opposed to absent.
2. Being before the face or near; being in company. Inquire of some of the gentlemen present.
These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John 14.
3. Being now in view or under consideration. In the present instance, facts will not warrant the conclusion. The present question must be decided on different principles.
4. Now existing, or being at this time; not past or future; as the present session of congress. The court is in session at the present time. We say, a present good,the present year or age.
5. Ready at hand; quick in emergency; as present wit.
'Tis a high point of philosophy and virtue for a man to be present to himself.
6. Favorably attentive; not heedless; propitious.
Nor could I hope in any place but there
To find a god so present to my prayer.
7. Not absent of mind; not abstracted; attentive.
The present, an elliptical expression for the present time.
At present, elliptically for, at the present time.
Present tense, in grammar, the tense or form of a verb which expresses action or being in the present time, as I am writing; or something that exists at all times, as virtue is always to be preferred to vice; or it expresses habits or general truths, as plants spring from the earth; fishes swim; reptiles creep; birds fly; some animals subsist on herbage, others are carnivorous.
PRES'ENT, n. That which is presented or given; a gift; a donative; something given or offered to another gratuitously; a word of general application. Gen 32.
Presents' in the plural, is used in law for a deed of conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney or other writing; as in the phrase, "Know all men by these presents," that is, by the writing itself, per presentes. In this sense, it is rarely used in the singular.
PRESENT', v.t. [Low L. proesento; L. proesens; proe, before, and sum, esse, to be.]
1. To set, place or introduce into the presence or before the face of a superior, as to present an envoy to the king; and with the reciprocal pronoun, to come into the presence of a superior.
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. Job 1.
2. To exhibit to view or notice. The top of Mount Holyoke, in Hampshire county, in Massachusetts, presents one of the finest prospects in America.
3. To offer; to exhibit.
O hear what to my mind first thoughts present.
He is ever ready to present to us the thoughts or observations of others.
4. To give; to offer gratuitously for reception. The first President of the American Bible Society, presented to that institution ten thousand dollars.
5. To put into the hands of another in ceremony.
So ladies in romance assist their knight,
Present the spear, and arm him for the fight.
6. To favor with a gift; as, we present a man with a suit of clothes. Formerly the phrase was, to present a person.
Octavia presented the poet, for his admirable elegy on her son Marcellus.
[This use is obsolete.]
7. To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
The patron of a church may present his clerk to a parsonage or vicarage; that is, may offer him to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted.
8. To offer.
He--presented battle to the French navy, which was refused.
9. To lay before a public body for consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance or indictment.
10. To lay before a court of judicature as an object of inquiry; to give notice officially of a crime or offense. It is the duty of grand juries to present all breaches of law within their knowledge. In America, grand juries present whatever they think to be public injuries, by notifying them to the public with their censure.
11. To point a weapon, particularly some species of fire-arms; as, to present a musket to the breast of another; in manual exercise, to present arms.
12. To indict; a customary use of the word in the United Stats.
present appears in definitions for these words:
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A Abandoning Abbot Aboding Absence Absent Abstraction Accelerate Acceptable Accessory Address Adduce Adessenarians Adoption Advertise Advowson Affront Age Agreement Alabaster Alderman Alone Always Amber Amplification Amplify Anathema Anciently Ant Antecessor Antique Any Aorist Apostrophy Appearance Appendance Archbuilder Armadillo Armigerous Armoric Art Artillery Arundelian Asbestos Aspect Assets Assizes Asteriated At Attend Attendance Attendant Attending Attention Average Avowee Bachelor Backside Banneret Basilicon Be Become Been Before Behindhand Behoof Benefice Beside Best Betoken Bibliolite Bill Bleak Blessing Bluff Boon Borough Botryoid Bountihede Breccia Bribe-devouring Britannic Bulbous But Butler By Call Canon Careful Carry Case Cash Cave Chastening Chatoyant Chattel Christmas-box Circle Civilized Coccolite Coin Collate Collated Collating Collation Collative Come Comer Comet Comma Commend Commendation Commendatory Complain Complaint Compliment Conception Concernment Conclude Congiary Congress Consciously Consubstantiation Consummation Content Conversant Corporally Corse-present Creature Critic Cubo-dodecahedral Cubo-octahedral Current Damsel Day Deacon Decorum Deism Departure Deprecate Description Dilemma Discontent Dispose Do Document Does Donation Donative Doron Douceur Dower Due Earthly Easy Ens Entranse Epiphany Epitaph Equidifferent Espouse Eternity Etiquet Everlasting Ex-legislator Except Exhibit Exhibited Exhibiter Exhibiting Exhibition Exigence Expressiveness Face Fairing Favor Fibrous File Filing Flattery Flesh Flounce Fluor Fond Franc Frontispiece Full Future Game Gather Genesis Gibbsite Gift Give Goddess Grandjuror Granitic Grateful Gratuity Grease Gregorian Guaranty Guess Hand Handsome Hant Haunt Have Hedgehog Help Heptahexahedral Here Heretofore Herewith His Hitherto Hodge-podge Hold Home Hopefully House How Humanly Huns Ignoramus Ill Image Imagination Immediate Immediately Impair Imparsonee Imperfect Impertinent In Incidentally Incite Increase Incumbent Indecorous Indictable Indifference Indistinct Individual Indult Informtion Inoffensive Instant Instanter Instinct Intuition Invite Is Issue January Jasper Joy Judge Lamelliferous Lapse Largess Last Late Laureate Lay Leap-year Legislate Life Light Lightning Lithoglyphite Lodge Love-token Love-toy Lucid Maintain Mam Man Manna Manurable Marble Material Matter Mature Meed Memorialist Memorialize Metal Mine Modern Monochromatic Morrow Most Multipresence Muse Mutation Near Neither Neology Newtonian Now Nyctalopy O Object Object-glass Objection Oblation Obligate Obscene Obsceneness Obstructive Obviate Occasionally Occur Occurrence Offer Offered Offering Omnipresence Omnipresent Only Opportune Or Ostentatious Overawe Overlook Paint Panorama Pasch-egg Pass Passy-measure Patronage Patroness Pectinate Personal Personality Personally Perspicuity Perspicuous Persuade Persuading Petitioner Phasis Phenomenon Philology Picture Pitcher Plead Pleonasm Plutonist Point Pontificate Porcupine Prefer Preferring Presage Present Presentable Presentaneous Presentation Presentative Presentee Presenter Presentiality Presentiate Presentific Presentificly Presently Presentment Presentness Presumptive Pretense Principal Probation Profiled Prognosticate Prognostication Prognosticator Prompt Propose Proposed Prosecution Prosopopeia Prospect Protasis Provision Provisional Provisionally Provisor Pun Quincunx Quorum Quoth Ranger Rascality Reach Ready Real Reason Receive Recognition Remembrance Remembrancer Remonstrance Remonstrate Remove Reporting Represent Reserve Resiant Resolve Rest Restauration Retire Retribution Rich Rime Rinse Roguish Ruin Sacrament Salver Sample Sanscrit Satisfaction Scene Scenery Secular Secularity Self Self-evident Septaria Septuagint Sergeant Serve Set Settlement Several Shall Shilling Shorl Short Should Show Simile Simoniacal Simony Since Sincere Sinter Skink Sleep Soul Specht Species Specifical Specktacle Spectator Spell Squeamishness Squib Stand Standard Stander-by Standing Stanza Start State Statement Store Stuff Submission Submit Subsist Such Sugar Suggestion Superficially Superinstitution Surprise Swanimote Swear Synoptically Take Tally Tantalize Tantalizing Temperament Tempest Tempt Temptation Tender Tense Terrestrial Terrier Thick This Threaten Through Thunder-struck Tiller Time To-morrow To-night Today Tole Tridodecahedral Trioctahedral Trophy Trust Understanding Unobstructive Upwards Usurer Usurpation Usury Verderer Vested Vestibule View Virtually Vision Visit Vivid Voice Want Ward Was Wave Weep Welcome When Will Within Witness Witnessed Wonder World Yawn Yester Yesterday Yolk
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