present adj. (1 cf. ‘a very present help in trouble’ Psalm xlvi. 1; 2 very freq.)
1.
(of money)
immediately available, ‘ready’
Err. IV. i. 34
“I am not furnish'd with
the
money,”
Mer.V. I. i. 179
“To raise a
sum,”
III. ii. 274
“The money to
discharge the Jew.”
2.
immediate, instant
Wiv. IV. vi. 56
“I'll make a
recompense,”
Wint. I. ii. 281
“without My
vengeance”
“taken,”
H8 I. ii. 211
“Call him to
trial,”
Rom. IV. i. 61
“Give me some
counsel,”
Oth. I. ii. 90
“some business of the
state.”
3.
(?) urgent, pressing
Tim. II. ii. 154
“To pay your
debts,”
III. ii. 39
“He has only sent his
occasion now.”
