Category:Now

Now, adv. Etym: [oe. nou, nu, as. nu, nu; akin to d., Os., & ohg. nu, G. nu, nun, icel., nu, dan., Sw., & goth. nu, l. nunc, gr. nu, nu.
 * 193. Cf. New.]

1. At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; Instantly; as, i will write now. I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood From his lungs thirty years ago. Arbuthnot.

2. Very lately; not long ago. They that but now, for honor and for plate, made the sea blush with Blood, resign their hate. Waller.

3. At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or Contemplated; at a particular time referred to. The ship was now in the midst of the sea. Matt. xiv. 24.

4. In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used As a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an Explanation. How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of Honor l'estrange. Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is shak. Then cried they all again, saying, not this man, but barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. John xviii. 40. 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. 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.

Now Now, a.

Defn: existing at the present time; present. [r.] "our now Happiness." Glanvill.

Now Now, n.

Defn: the present time or moment; the present. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; but an eternal now does Ever last. Cowley.