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presentaneous

presentaneous adjective: ready; quick; immediate in effect.

Adjective

presentaneous (comparative more presentaneous, superlative most presentaneous)

  1. (obsolete) ready; quick; immediate in effect
    • in the manner of a most presentaneous poyson, they enecate in two or three hours1673, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague

Forms of presentaneous

comparativemore presentaneous
superlativemost presentaneous

Origin of presentaneous

From Latin praesentaneus. See present (adjective).

Questions about presentaneous

What does presentaneous mean?
Presentaneous means ready; quick; immediate in effect.
What part of speech is presentaneous?
Presentaneous is an adjective.

Words near presentaneous in the dictionary

  1. presentable
  2. presentableness
  3. presentably
  4. Presentacion
  5. presental
  6. presentaneous
  7. presentation
  8. presentation box
  9. presentation boxes
  10. presentation copies
  11. presentation copy

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