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Present
King James Dictionary
or 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. Genesis 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.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Present'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/present.html.
