Definition of Present

Present

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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.

Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.

Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit.

Favorably attentive; propitious.

Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present.

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.

A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense.

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.

To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance.

To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.

To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.

Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.

To present; to personate.

To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.

To nominate for support at a public school or other institution .

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.

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.

To bring an indictment against .

To aim, point, or direct, as a weapon; as, to present a pistol or the point of a sword to the breast of another.

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.

Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present.

The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present.

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou