Difference between revisions of "Instant"

<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' a.) Present; current. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' a.) Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' adv.) Instantly. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' a.) A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' a.) A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; - an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' a.) Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. </p>

<p> IN'STANT, a. L. instans, insto. </p> 1. [[Pressing]] urgent importunate earnest. <p> [[Rejoicing]] in hope patient in tribulation continuing instant in prayer. &nbsp;Romans 12 </p> 2. Immediate without intervening time present. <p> Impending death is thine and instant doom. </p> 3. [[Quick]] making no delay. <p> [[Instant]] he flew with hospitable haste. </p> 4. [[Present]] current. On the tenth of July instant. <p> IN'STANT, n. A point in duration a moment a part of duration in which we perceive no succession, or a part that occupies the time of a single thought. </p> 1. A particular time.

<p> <strong> INSTANT </strong> . ‘Instant’ and ‘instantly’ are now used only of time. In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] they have their earlier meaning of ‘urgent,’ ‘urgently,’ as in &nbsp; Luke 23:23 ‘they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified’; &nbsp; Luke 7:4 ‘they besought him instantly’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘earnestly’). Cf. Erasmus, <em> [[Paraphrase]] </em> , i. 31, ‘whoso knocketh at the doore instantly, to him it shal be opened.’ </p>

<p> '''Instant.''' In the Authorized Version, means ''Urgent, Urgently'' or ''Fervently,'' as will be seen from the following passages: &nbsp;Luke 7:4; &nbsp;Luke 23:23; &nbsp;Acts 26:7; &nbsp;Romans 12:12. </p>