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   Now , adv. [OE. nou, nu, AS. nū, nu; akin to D., OS., & OHG. nu, G. nu, nun, Icel., nū, Dan., Sw., & Goth. nu, L. nunc, Gr. νύ, νῦν, Skr. nu, nū. √193. Cf. New.]
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   At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.
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   I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.
   Arbuthnot.
   
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   Very lately; not long ago.
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   They that but now, for honor and for plate,
   Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.
   Waller.
   
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   At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to.
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   The ship was now in the midst of the sea.
   Matt. xiv. 24.
   
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   In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation.
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   How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor?
   L'Estrange.
   
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   Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is?
   Shak.
   
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   Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber.
   John xviii. 40.
   
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   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.
   
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   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.
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   Now, a. Existing at the present time; present. [R.] “Our now happiness.” 
   Glanvill.
   
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   Now, n. The present time or moment; the present.
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   Nothing is there to come, and nothing past;
   But an eternal now does ever last.
   Cowley.
   
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