NOW
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Now (nou), adv. [OE. nou, nu, AS. n&ū;, nu; akin to D., OS., & OHG. nu, G. nu, nun, Icel., n&ū;, Dan., Sw., & Goth. nu, L. nunc, Gr. ny`, ny^n, Skr. nu, n&ū;. √193. Cf. New.]
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1. At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.
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I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.
Arbuthnot.
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2. Very lately; not long ago.
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They that but now, for honor and for plate,
Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.
Waller.
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3. At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to.
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The ship was now in the midst of the sea.
Matt. xiv. 24.
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4. In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation.
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How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor?
L'Estrange.
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Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is?
Shak.
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Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber.
John xviii. 40.
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The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men is, by their being misrepresented. Now, by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others in the way of slander.
South.
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Now and again, now and then; occasionally. -- Now and now, again and again; repeatedly. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Now and then, at one time and another; indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals. “A mead here, there a heath, and now and then a wood.” Drayton. -- Now now, at this very instant; precisely now. [Obs.] “Why, even now now, at holding up of this finger, and before the turning down of this.” J. Webster (1607). -- Now . . . now, alternately; at one time . . . at another time. “Now high, now low, now master up, now miss.” Pope.
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Now, a. Existing at the present time; present. [R.] “Our now happiness.” Glanvill.
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Now, n. The present time or moment; the present.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past;
But an eternal now does ever last.
Cowley.
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