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Webster 1913 Edition
Immediate
1.
Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close;
as,
. immediate
contactYou are the most
immediate
to our throne. Shakespeare
2.
Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
“Assemble we immediate council.” Shak.
Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared,
By some
By some
immediate
stroke. Milton.
3.
Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly;
as, an
. immediate
causeThe
immediate
knowledge of the past is therefore impossible. Sir. W. Hamilton.
Syn. – Proximate; close; direct; next.
Webster 1828 Edition
Immediate
IMME'DIATE
,Adj.
1.
Proximate; acting without a medium, or without the intervention of another cause or means; producing its effect by its own direct agency. An immediate cause is that which is exerted directly in producing its effect, in opposition to a mediate cause, or one more remote.2.
Not acting by second causes; as the immediate will of God.3.
Instant; present; without the intervention of time. We must have an immediate supply of bread. Immediate are my needs--
Death--inflicted--by an immediate stroke.