At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.
I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.
Very lately; not long ago.
They that but now, for honor and for plate,
Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.
At a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to.
The ship was now in the midst of the sea.
In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation.
How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor?
Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is?
Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber.
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.
Phrases & Compounds
Now and again
now and then; occasionally.
Now and now
again and again; repeatedly.
Now and then
at one time and another; indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals.
Now now
at this very instant; precisely now.
Now . . . now
alternately; at one time . . . at another time.
Now
a.
Existing at the present time; present. [R.]
Now
n.
The present time or moment; the present.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past;
But an eternal now does ever last.