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one in person; without the intervention of another. "Personal communication." Fabyan. The immediate and personal speaking of God. White.

The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.

Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man. -- n.

(Arch.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.…

Of or pertaining to the period immediately following the Pliocene; Pleistocene. Also used as a noun. See Quaternary.

ous prayer; to repeat one's prayers. He made those excellent prayers which were published immediately after his death. Bp. Fell. Prayer book, a book containing devotional prayers. -- Prayer meeting, a meeting or gathering for prayer to God.

Situated in front of the back; immediately in front, or on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column.

Situated immediately in front of the loins;- applied to the dorsal part of the abdomen.

Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident. "A present recompense." "A present pardon." Shak. An ambassador . . . desires a present audience. Massinger.

Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. [Obs.] Harvey.

Implying actual presence; present, immediate. [Obs.] God's mercy is made presential to us. Jer. Taylor. -- Pre*sen"tial*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly. Presto! begone! 'tis here again. Swift.

Situated immediately in front, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.

dily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience or compliance; -- said of persons. Very discerning and prompt in giving orders. Clarendon. Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at's feet. Shak. Any you, perhaps, too prompt in your replies. Dryd…

Nearest; next immediately preceding or following. "Proximate ancestors." J. S. Harford. The proximate natural causes of it [the deluge]. T. Burnet. Proximate analysis (Chem.), an analysis which determines the proximate principles of any substance, as contrasted with an ultimate analysis. -- Proximate cause. (a) A caus…

In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.

Next; immediately preceding or following. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance. If he plead proximity of blood That empty title is with ease withstood. Dryden.

To deprive of the pulp, or integument. The other mode is to pulp the coffee immediately as it comes from the tree. By a simple machine a man will pulp a bushel in a minute. B. Edwards.

Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.