PPage 381
- English Word Present Definition To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance.
- English Word Present Definition To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.
- English Word Present Definition To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.
- English Word Present Definition Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.
- English Word Present Definition To present; to personate.
- English Word Present Definition To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
- English Word Present Definition To nominate for support at a public school or other institution .
- English Word Present Definition 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.
- English Word Present Definition 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.
- English Word Present Definition To bring an indictment against .
- English Word Present Definition To aim, point, or direct, as a weapon; as, to present a pistol or the point of a sword to the breast of another.
- English Word Present Definition 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.
- English Word Present Definition Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present.
- English Word Present Definition The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present.
- English Word Presentable Definition 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.
- English Word Presentable Definition Admitting of the presentation of a clergiman; as, a church presentable.
- English Word Presentaneous Definition Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison.
- English Word Presentation Definition The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.
- English Word Presentation Definition exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show.
- English Word Presentation Definition That which is presented or given; a present; a gift, as, the picture was a presentation.
- English Word Presentation Definition The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman.
- English Word Presentation Definition 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.
- English Word Presentative Definition Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.
- English Word Presentative Definition Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage.
- English Word Presentative Definition Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.
- English Word Presented Definition of Present
- English Word Presentee Definition One to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice.
- English Word Presenter Definition One who presents.
- English Word Presential Definition Implying actual presence; present, immediate.
- English Word Presentiality Definition State of being actually present.