1900, François Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart (translator), Peter Anthony Motteux (translator), and Charles Whibley, Gargantua and Pantagruel, volume 2, page 205 (D. Nutt):... that it maketh all whatever is done, to be of no force nor value, is excellently well proved, by Spec. tit. de inst. edi. et tit. de rescript, præsent.
1657, Thomas Bradley, A Præsent for Cæsar, main title (a reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library):A Præsent for Cæsar
Verb
(archaic or pedantic) Alternative spelling of present
1597, J. Guillemeau (translator), Frenche chirurgerye or all the manualle operations of chirurgerye, page 36?Followinge the naturall Childebirth, the childe allways præsenteth first his heade.
1963, Charles Harold Herford (editor), Percy Simpson (editor), and Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson (editor), Ben Jonson, volume 8?
, page 433 (Clarendon Press) · (discussing text from 1572–1637):
It preserves the Jonsonian spellings ‘præsent’ and ‘præsenteth’ in lines 143 and 197. The punctuation, usually good, has two peculiarities, an habitual use of the colon and an erratic way of writing the indefinite article ‘a’ with an apostrophe ...
2008, “radjaernaâ€, RichardDawkins.net Forum: Should women have equal rights with men?, forum post â„– 775,752 on Friday the 28th of March at 11 o’clock p.m.I find it scary that I have given, though relying greatly on intuïtion probably more reasoning as to why ‘ethics’ is not something one can reason or formally debate about than many of the great ethics ‘philosophers’ (again, the word of Russell) have ever præsented in their opera.
