Instant

Definition of Instant

In´stant

a.	1.
	1.	Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. - Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation. - Carlyle.
	2.	Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay. Impending death is thine, and instant doom. - Prior.
	3.	Present; current. The instant time is always the fittest time. - Fuller.
adv.	1.	Instantly. Instant he flew with hospitable haste. - Pope.
n.	1.
	1.	A point in time; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment; as, teh situation may change in an instant. There is scarce an instant between their flourishing and their not being. - Hooker.
	2.	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.

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