Definition of Immedeate
Im*me"di*ate (?), a. [F.
immédiat. See In- not, and Mediate.]
1. Not separated in respect to place by anything
intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate
contact.
You are the most immediate to our
throne. Shak.
2. Not deferred by an interval of time;
present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council."
Shak.
Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared,
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 cause.
The immediate knowledge of the past is
therefore impossible. Sir. W. Hamilton.
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.
Syn. -- Proximate; close; direct; next.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- happening right away, instantly, with no delay
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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