Present

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Present \Pres"ent\, a. [F. pr['e]sent, L. praesens,-entis, that
     is before one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be
     before; prae before + esse to be. See {Essence}.]
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     1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain
        contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.


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              These things have I spoken unto you, being yet
              present with you.                     --John xiv.
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     2. 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.
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              I'll bring thee to the present business --Shak.
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     3. Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident. "A present
        recompense." "A present pardon." --Shak.
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              An ambassador . . . desires a present audience.
                                                    --Massinger.
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     4. Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit. [R.]
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     5. Favorably attentive; propitious. [Archaic]
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              To find a god so present to my prayer. --Dryden.
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     {Present tense} (Gram.), the tense or form of a verb which
        expresses action or being in the present time; as, I am
        writing, I write, or I do write.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Present \Pre*sent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Presented}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Presenting}.] [F. pr['e]senter, L. praesentare, fr.
     praesens, a. See {Present}, a.]
     1. 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.
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              Now there was a day when the sons of God came to
              present themselves before the lord.   --Job i. 6
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     2. To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's
        perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine
        appearance.
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              Lectorides's memory is ever . . . presenting him
              with the thoughts of other persons.   --I. Watts.
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     3. To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in
        charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.
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              So ladies in romance assist their knight,
              Present the spear, and arm him for the fight.
                                                    --Pope.
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     4. To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a
        formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.
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              My last, least offering, I present thee now.
                                                    --Cowper.
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     5. Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with
        a donation; also, to court by gifts.
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              Octavia presented the poet for him admirable elegy
              on her son Marcellus.                 --Dryden.
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     6. To present; to personate. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     7. In specific uses;
        (a) To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to
            the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
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                  The patron of a church may present his clerk to
                  a parsonage or vicarage; that is, may offer him
                  to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted.
                                                    --Blackstone.
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        (b) To nominate for support at a public school or other
            institution . --Lamb.
        (c) 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.
        (d) 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.
        (e) To bring an indictment against . [U.S]
        (f) To aim, point, or direct, as a weapon; as, to present
            a pistol or the point of a sword to the breast of
            another.
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     {Pesent arms} (Mil.), the command in response to which the
        gun is carried perpendicularly in front of the center of
        the body, and held there with the left hand grasping it at
        the lower band, and the right hand grasping the small of
        the stock, in token of respect, as in saluting a superior
        officer; also, the position taken at such a command.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Present \Pres"ent\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]sent. See {Present}, a.]
     1. Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at
        the moment contemplated; as, at this present.
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              Past and present, wound in one.       --Tennyson.
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     2. pl. (Law) 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.
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     3. (Gram.) A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting
        the present tense.
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     {At present}, at the present time; now.
  
     {For the present}, for the tine being; temporarily.
  
     {In present}, at once, without delay. [Obs.] "With them, in
        present, half his kingdom; the rest to follow at his
        death." --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Present \Pre*sent"\, v. i. (Med.)
     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Present \Pres"ent\, n. [F. pr['e]sent .]
     Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a
     Christmas present.
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     Syn: Gift; donation; donative; benefaction. See {Gift}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Present \Pre*sent"\, n. (Mil.)
     The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at
     present.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  present
       adj 1: temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now
              existing or happening or in consideration; "the
              present leader"; "articles for present use"; "the
              present topic"; "the present system"; "present
              observations" [syn: {present(a)}] [ant: {future}, {past}]
       2: spatial sense; being or existing in a specified place; "the
          murderer is present in this room"; "present at the
          wedding"; "present at the creation" [ant: {absent}]
       n 1: the period of time that is happening now; any continuous
            stretch of time including the moment of speech; "that is
            enough for the present"; "he lives in the present with
            no thought of tomorrow" [syn: {nowadays}]
       2: something presented as a gift; "his tie was a present from
          his wife"
       3: a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of
          speaking [syn: {present tense}]
       v 1: show or demonstrate something to an interested audience;
            "She shows her dogs frequently"; "We will demo the new
            software in Washington" [syn: {show}, {demo}, {exhibit},
             {demonstrate}]
       2: bring forward and present to the mind; "We presented the
          arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to
          our formal reason" [syn: {represent}, {lay out}]
       3: perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to
          stage `Othello'" [syn: {stage}, {represent}]
       4: hand over formally [syn: {submit}]
       5: introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn: {pose}]
       6: give, especially as a reward; "bestow honors and prizes at
          graduation" [syn: {award}]
       7: give as a present; make a gift of; "What will you give her
          for her birthday?" [syn: {give}, {gift}]
       8: deliver (a speech, oration, or idea); "The commencement
          speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed the
          students" [syn: {deliver}]
       9: cause to come to know personally; "permit me to acquaint you
          with my son"; "introduce the new neighbors to the
          community" [syn: {introduce}, {acquaint}]
       10: represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture, or verbally;
           "The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this
           painting" [syn: {portray}]
       11: present somebody with something, usually to accuse or
           criticize; "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was
           faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his
           actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us" [syn: {confront},
            {face}]
       12: formally present a debutante, a representative of a country,
           etc.
       13: recognize with a gesture prescribed by a miltary regulation;
           assume a prescribed position; "When the officers show up,
           the soldiers have to salute" [syn: {salute}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  407 Moby Thesaurus words for "present":
     Christmas present, accessible, accommodate, accord, acquaint,
     actual, adduce, adjacent, administer, advance, affect, afford,
     affront, aid, aim, aim at, allege, allot, allow, allowance, alms,
     announce, aorist, array, articulate, as is, at hand, at present,
     attendant, available, award, baksheesh, be a gas, be a hit, being,
     bend, benevolence, bestow, bestow on, betoken, bill,
     birthday present, bomb, bonus, boon, bounty, box, brandish, brave,
     breast, breathe, bring before, bring forth, bring forward,
     bring in, bring into view, bring on, bring out, bring to bear,
     bring to notice, bring up, cadeau, challenge, chime, chorus,
     chronology, close, closest, clothe, come out with, communicate,
     compliment, conceive, confer, confront, confront with,
     contemporaneous, contemporary, continuity, contribute,
     contribution, convey, couch, couch in terms, current, dangle, dare,
     deal, deal out, defy, deliver, demonstrate, deploy, determine,
     develop, devote, direct, directionize, disclose, dish out,
     dispense, display, distribute, divulge, do the honors, dole,
     dole out, donate, donation, dramatize, duration, durative, duree,
     embody, embody in words, emcee, emit, enact, encounter, endow,
     endowment, enunciate, envisage, evidence, evince, exhibit,
     existent, existing, expose to view, express, extant, extend, face,
     face with, fail, fairing, favor, feature, file, fill, fill up,
     find, fix, fix on, flaunt, fling off, flop, flourish, fork out,
     formularize, formulate, frame, freeload, fresh, front, fund,
     furnish, future, future perfect, gift, gift with, give,
     give a knockdown, give an introduction, give away, give expression,
     give expression to, give freely, give out, give out with,
     give sign, give token, give tongue, give utterance, give voice,
     give words to, grant, gratuity, hand, hand out, hand over,
     hand-out, handsel, headline, heap, help to, here and now,
     highlight, historical present, hold forth, hold on, hold out,
     illuminate, immanent, immediate, impart, imperfect, in being,
     in effect, in existence, in force, in view, incarnate, indicate,
     indwelling, inherent, instant, introduce, invest, issue, just now,
     keep, largess, largesse, lastingness, latest, lavish, lay before,
     let have, let out, level at, lip, living, maintain, make a hit,
     make acquainted, make available, make clear, make known,
     make plain, make provision for, manifest, marshal, materialize,
     mean, meet, meet squarely, melodramatize, mete, mete out, modern,
     mount, nearby, nearest, new, newfashioned, now, nowadays, oblation,
     offer, offering, on board, on deck, on foot, on hand, open,
     open a show, our times, out with, parade, paragraph, pass out,
     past, past perfect, peace offering, perfect, perform, period,
     phonate, phrase, place before, plead, pluperfect, point, point at,
     point tense, point to, pour, pour forth, pourboire, prefer,
     premiere, prepare, present perfect, present to, present-age,
     present-day, present-time, presentation, presently, preterit,
     prevalent, preview, produce, proffer, progressive tense, pronounce,
     provide, provide for, proximate, psychological time, put,
     put forth, put forward, put in words, put it to, put on,
     put to choice, put to vote, put up, quaint, rain, raise, rally,
     record, recruit, register, remaining, render, replenish, represent,
     reveal, rhetorize, right now, roll out, running, say, scenarize,
     serve, set, set before, set forth, set out, set the stage,
     shell out, show, show forth, shower, sight on, slip, snow, sound,
     space, space-time, sponge, spotlight, stage, star, state, stem,
     stock, store, style, submit, subsidize, subsistent, subsisting,
     succeed, supply, support, tell, tender, tense, term, that be,
     that is, the future, the nonce, the past, the present,
     the time being, theatricalize, these days, throw off, tide, time,
     timebinding, tip, today, token, topical, train, train upon,
     tribute, trot out, try out, turn, turn over, turn upon,
     under the sun, unfold, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, utter,
     verbalize, vocalize, voice, vouchsafe, wave, while, whisper,
     white elephant, within call, within reach, within sight, word,
     yield
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PRESENT. A gift, or wore properly the thing given. It is provided by the 
  constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 9, n, 7, that "no person 
  holding any office of profit or trust under them, [the United States] shall, 
  without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, or 
  office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign 
  state." 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  PRESENT, n.  That part of eternity dividing the domain of
  disappointment from the realm of hope.