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Immediate   /ɪmˈidiət/   Listen
adjective
Immediate  adj.  
1.
Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. "You are the most immediate to our throne."
2.
Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." "Death... not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke."
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 cause. "The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible."
Immediate amputation (Surg.), an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away.
Synonyms: Proximate; close; direct; next.






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"Immediate" Quotes from Famous Books



... An immediate activity responded on board the Farallone; far away voices, and soon the sound of oars, floated along the surface of the lagoon; and at the same time, from nearer hand, Herrick aroused himself and strolled languidly up. He bent over the insignificant ...
— The Ebb-Tide - A Trio And Quartette • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... that Affection from which, as you know, I suffer, and about which you never fail to make such kind Enquiries at Christmas and Easter, compelled me to call in Mr. O'Mally, the apothecary, who has been my very obliging medical adviser for so many years, and who strenuously advocated an immediate course of waters at Bath. In short, my dear Nephew, thus the matter was settled, your cousin Molly departed radiant with good spirits, and good looks for a spell of gayety in Dublin, while your cousin Madeleine, prepared (with equal content) to accompany ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle

... must be consecrated to them, and the well by which it was watered must be pointed out as holy water to the vestal virgins, that they might daily take some thence to purify and sprinkle their temple. The truth of this is said to have been proved by the immediate cessation of the plague. He bade workmen compete in imitating the shield, and, when all others refused to attempt it, Veturius Mamurius, one of the best workmen of the time, produced so admirable an imitation, and made all the shields so exactly alike, that even Numa himself ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch

... in 1797, defending his refusal to offer terms of peace to the Directory of France. Alluding to some remarks of Sir John Sinclair, in the House of Commons, deprecating war as a great evil, and calling on ministers to propose an immediate peace, Mr. Pitt says,—"He began with deploring the calamities of war, on the general topic that all war is calamitous. Do I object to that sentiment? No. But is it our business, at a moment when we feel ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various

... at which dynamite could be imported (exclusive of Transvaal duty) and the price we are now compelled to pay amounts to over L600,000 per annum on the present rate of consumption, a sum which will increase steadily and largely in the immediate future. ...
— The Transvaal from Within - A Private Record of Public Affairs • J. P. Fitzpatrick


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