præsent

comparative more præsent · superlative most præsent

1. archaicArchaic spelling of present.

   […] that it maketh all whatever is done, to be of no force nor value, is excellently well proved, by Spec. tit. de inst. edi. et tit. de rescript, præsent.

   1900, François Rabelais, Charles Whibley, translated by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, Gargantua and Pantagruel, volume 2, D. Nutt, page 205

plural præsents

1. archaicArchaic spelling of present.

   A Præsent for Cæsar

   1657, Thomas Bradley, A Præsent for Cæsar, main title (a reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library)

present singular third person præsenteth · participle present præsenting · participle past præsented · past præsented

1. alternativearchaic or pedanticAlternative spelling of present.

   Followinge the naturall Childebirth, the childe allways præsenteth first his heade.

   1597, J. Guillemeau, transl., Frenche chirurgerye or all the manualle operations of chirurgerye, page 36?

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   It preserves the Jonsonian spellings ‘præsent’ and ‘præsenteth’ in lines 143 and 197. The punctuation, usually good, has two peculiarities, an habitual use of the colon and an erratic way of writing the indefinite article ‘a’ with an apostrophe […]

   1963, Charles Harold Herford (editor), Percy Simpson (editor), and Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson (editor), Ben Jonson, volume 8, page 433 (Clarendon Press) · (discussing text from 1572–1637)

   2008, “radjaerna”, RichardDawkins.net Forum: Should women have equal rights with men?, forum post № 775,752 on Friday the 28th of March at 11 o’clock p.m. I find it scary that I have given, though relying greatly on intuïtion probably more reasoning as to why ‘ethics’ is not something one can reason or formally debate about than many of the great ethics ‘philosophers’ (again, the word of Russell) have ever præsented in their opera.