Present(a.) Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.
Present(a.) Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future; as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance.
Present(a.) Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.
Present(a.) Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit.
Present(a.) Favorably attentive; propitious.
Present(a.) Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present.
Present(a.) Present letters or instrument, as 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 has literas praesentes; \" -- in this sense, rarely used in the singular.
Present(a.) A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense.
Present(a.) To bring or introduce into the presence of some one, especially of a superior; to introduce formally; to offer for acquaintance; as, to present an envoy to the king; (with the reciprocal pronoun) to come into the presence of a superior.
Present(a.) To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance.
Present(a.) To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.
Present(a.) To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.
Present(a.) Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.
Present(a.) To present; to personate.
Present(a.) To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
Present(a.) To nominate for support at a public school or other institution .
Present(a.) To lay before a public body, or an official, for consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance, or indictment.
Present(a.) To lay before a court as an object of inquiry; to give notice officially of, as a crime of offence; to find or represent judicially; as, a grand jury present certain offenses or nuisances, or whatever they think to be public injuries.
Present(a.) To bring an indictment against .
Present(a.) To aim, point, or direct, as a weapon; as, to present a pistol or the point of a sword to the breast of another.
Present(n.) Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present.
Present(n.) The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present.
Present(v. i.) To appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; -- said of a part of an infant during labor.
Presentable(a.) Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not presentable in such a gown.
Presentable(a.) Admitting of the presentation of a clergiman; as, a church presentable.
Presentation(n.) The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.
Presentation(n.) exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show.
Presentation(n.) That which is presented or given; a present; a gift, as, the picture was a presentation.
Presentation(n.) The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.
Presentation(n.) 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.
Presentative(a.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.
Presentative(a.) Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage.
Presentative(a.) Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.
Presented(imp. & p. p.) of Present
Presenter(n.) One who presents.
Presenting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Present
Presention(n.) See Presension.
Presentive(a.) Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic.
Presently(adv.) At present; at this time; now.
Presently(adv.) At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by.
Presently(adv.) With actual presence; actually .
Presentment(n.) The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; presentation.
Presentment(n.) Setting forth to view; delineation; appearance; representation; exhibition.
Presentment(n.) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment itself.
Presentment(n.) The official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.
Presentness(n.) The quality or state of being present; presence.
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