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contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.

to the given sum at the date on which this is to be paid; thus, interest being at 6%, the present value of $106 due one year hence is $100.

Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not presentable in such a gown.

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

The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal. Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires. Hooker.

Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. Blackstone.

One to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice. Ayliffe.

One who presents.

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

State of being actually present. [Obs.] South.

To make present. [Obs.]

Feeling or perceiving beforehand.

Making present. [Obs.] -- Pres`en*tif"ic*ly, adv. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Presentific. [Obs.]

Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.

Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. [R.] Coleridge.

See Presension. [Obs.]

Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. -- Pre*sent"ive*ly, adv. -- Pre*sent"ive*ness, n.

At present; at this time; now. [Obs.] The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney.

The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; presentation. " Upon the heels of my presentment." Shak.