Word Meanings - FUTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present. Future tense , the tense or modification of a verb which expresses a future act or event.
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- AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - MODIFICATION
The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. Bentley. - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - EVENT
1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - PRESENT
one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25. - EXIST
exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift. - PRESENTIVE
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. -- - PRESENTANEOUS
Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey. - EXISTER
One who exists. - MOMENTARILY
Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone. - EVENTILATION
The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely. - PRESENTLY
1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree - EXISTIBLE
Capable of existence. Grew. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - AFTERSHAFT
The hypoptilum. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - EVENTFUL
Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life. - MOMENTOUS
Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. -- Mo*men"tous*ly, adv. -- Mo*men"tous*ness, n. - EVENTIDE
The time of evening; evening. Spenser. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - POSTEXIST
To exist after; to live subsequently. - PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. - NONEXISTENCE
1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne. - IMPREVENTABILITY
The state or quality of being impreventable. - NONPRESENTATION
Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented. - REPRESENTABLE
Capable of being represented. - TOTIPRESENT
Omnipresence. A. Tucker. - OMNIPRESENTIAL
Implying universal presence. South. - SELF-EXISTENT
Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.