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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: PHILOSOPHY OF THE PRESENT
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:23:35 -0500 (EST)
PHILOSOPHY OF THE PRESENT PRESENT Not absent, being face to face, being at hand; not past, not future; ready at hand, quick in emergencies; favourably attentive, propitious; unforgotten, not abstracted, not absent of mind, attractive. The present; an elliptical expression for the present time, the time now existing. At present; at the present time, now. PRESENT A gift, a donative, something ceremoniously given, a letter or mandate exhibited. To PRESENT To place in the presence of a superior; to exhibit to view or notice; to offer, to exhibit; to give formally and ceremoniously; to put into the hands of another; to favour with gifts; to prefer to ecclesias- tical benefices; to offer openly; to lay before a course of judicature, as an object of inquiry PRESENTABLE What may be presented. PRESENTANEOUS Ready, quick, immediate. PRESENTATION The act of presenting; the act of offering any one to an ecclesiastical benefice; exhibition. PRESENTATIVE Such as that presentations may be made of it. PRESENTEE One presented to a benefice. PRESENTER One that presents. PRESENTIAL Supposing actual presence. PRESENTIALITY State of being present. PRESENTIFICK Making present. PRESENTIFICKLY So as to make present. PRESENTIMENT Previous idea. PRESENTLY At present, at this time, now; immediately, soon after. PRESENTMENT The act of presenting; any thing presented or exhibited, representation: in Law, the form of laying any thing before a court of judicature for examination. PRESENTNESS Presence of mind, quickness at emergencies. ===