n. (Engl.Law) An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being represented or portrayed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfavorably); to give a false or erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignorantly, or carelessly. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make an incorrect or untrue representation. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional untruth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who misrepresents. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Multi- + present, a. ] Being, or having the power to be, present in two or more places at once. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Art) not intended to realistically represent a physical object; -- of visual art work. Opposite of representational. [ Narrower terms: abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective ; conventional, formal, schematic ; geometric, geometrical ; protogeometric ; semiabstract ] Also See: abstract.
Syn. -- nonobjective. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. Not standing for something else. Opposite of representative.
Syn. -- unsymbolic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Not giving a true representation of the characteristics of a group; -- of a sample or subgroup of a group; as, the weather we had in the summer of 1996 gave a nonrepresentative view of our normal weather.
Syn. -- biased, unrepresentative. [ PJC ]

a. [ Omni- + present: cf. F. omniprésent. ] Present in all places at the same time; ubiquitous; as, the omnipresent Jehovah. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Implying universal presence. [ R. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. présent, 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. [ 1913 Webster ]

These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll bring thee to the present business Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident. “A present recompense.” “A present pardon.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

An ambassador . . . desires a present audience. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Favorably attentive; propitious. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To find a god so present to my prayer. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. présent. See Present, a. ] 1. Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present. [ 1913 Webster ]

Past and present, wound in one. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Presented; p. pr. & vb. n. Presenting. ] [ F. présenter, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the lord. Job i. 6 [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lectorides's memory is ever . . . presenting him with the thoughts of other persons. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over. [ 1913 Webster ]

So ladies in romance assist their knight,
Present the spear, and arm him for the fight. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer. [ 1913 Webster ]

My last, least offering, I present thee now. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Octavia presented the poet for him admirable elegy on her son Marcellus. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To present; to personate. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. In specific uses; (a) To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

(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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. présent . ] Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Gift; donation; donative; benefaction. See Gift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. présentable. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Admitting of the presentation of a clergiman; as, a church presentable. [ R. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praesentaneus. See Present, a. ] Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praesentatio a showing, representation: cf. F. présentation. ] 1. The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show. [ 1913 Webster ]

Under the presentation of the shoots his wit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is presented or given; a present; a gift, as, the picture was a presentation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eccl.) The act of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice; the right of presenting a clergyman. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the bishop admits the patron's presentation, the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Med.) The particular position of the child during labor relatively to the passage though which it is to be brought forth; -- specifically designated by the part which first appears at the mouth of the uterus; as, a breech presentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Presentation copy, a copy of a book, engraving, etc., presented to some one by the author or artist, as a token of regard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Eccl.) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Metaph.) Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties. [ 1913 Webster ]

The latter term, presentative faculty, I use . . . in contrast and correlation to a “representative faculty.” Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. présenté, p. p. See Present, v. t. ] One to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically (Eccl.), one presented to benefice. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who presents. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. praesentialis. ] Implying actual presence; present, immediate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God's mercy is made presential to us. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Pre*sen"tial*ly, adv. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

n. State of being actually present. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make present. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praesentiens, p. pr. of praesentire to perceive beforehand; prae before + sentire to feel. ] Feeling or perceiving beforehand. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praesens, -entis, present + facere to make. ] Making present. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Pres`en*tif"ic*ly, adv. [Obs.] Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]

a. Presentific. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. pre- + sentiment: cf. F. pressentiment. See Presentient. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Presension. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Philol.) Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. [ 1913 Webster ]

How greatly the word “will” is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Pre*sent"ive*ly, adv. -- Pre*sent"ive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. At present; at this time; now. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And presently the fig tree withered away. Matt. xxi. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. With actual presence; actually . [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His precious body and blood presently three. Bp. Gardiner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; presentation. “ Upon the heels of my presentment.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Setting forth to view; delineation; appearance; representation; exhibition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion,
And give it false presentment. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment itself. (b) The official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Presentment of a bill of exchange, the offering of a bill to the drawee for acceptance, or to the acceptor for payment. See Bill of exchange, under Bill. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being present; presence. [ Obs. ] “Presentness of mind in danger.” Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formed after analogy of French. ] An ornamental tray, dish, or the like, used as a salver. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } (of money payable at a future date). The principal which, drawing interest at a given rate, will amount 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ F. représenter, L. repraesentare, repraesentatum; pref. re- re- + preesentare to place before, present. See Present, v. t. ] 1. To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before him burn
Seven lamps, as in a zodiac representing
The heavenly fires. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To portray by pictoral or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To portray by mimicry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe. [ 1913 Webster ]

He represented Rizzio's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present. [ 1913 Webster ]

Among these. Fancy next
Her office holds; of all external things
Which he five watchful senses represent,
She forms imaginations, aery shapes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Metaph.) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the power of evoking out of unconsciousness one portion of our retained knowledge in preference to another, we posses the faculty of representing in consciousness what is thus evoked . . . This representative Faculty is Imagination or Phantasy. Sir. W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To present again; as, to re-present the points of an argument. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being represented. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Representation; likeness. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. repr&unr_;sentant. ] Appearing or acting for another; representing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. representant. ] A representative. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. repr&unr_;sentation, L. representatio. ] 1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which represents. Specifically: (a) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. (b) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet. (c) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate. (d) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress. (e) (Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being represented. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness; resemblance; exhibition; sight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Re-present. ] The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Implying representation; representative. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. repr&unr_;sentatif. ] 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Nat.Hist.) (a) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family. (b) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Metaph.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. [ 1913 Webster ]