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Webster 1913 Edition
Instanter
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In-stan′ter
,adv.
Immediately; instantly; at once;
as, he left
. instanter
Webster 1828 Edition
Instanter
INSTANT'ER
,adv.
The party was compelled to plead instanter.
Definition 2024
instanter
instanter
English
Adverb
instanter (not comparable)
- immediately; instantly; without delay
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.9:
- They lifted him onto the deck where he lay in his wet seersucker suit and his lemoncolored socks, leering walleyed up at the workers with the hook in his face like some gross water homunculus taken in trolling that the light of God's day had stricken dead instanter.
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- I cleared my throat & bade all good morning, at which our amicable captain swore, 'You can better my morning, by b—ing off, instanter!'
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.9:
Related terms
- instant
- this instant
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Latin
Adverb
īnstanter (comparable īnstantius, superlative īnstantissimē)
Related terms
References
- instanter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- instanter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “instanter”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.