At the present time. I have a patient now living at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.

A little while ago; very lately. They that but now for honor and for plate, made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.

At one time; at another time. Now high, now low, now master up, now miss.

Now sometimes expresses or implies a connection between the subsequent and preceding proposition; often it introduces an inference or an explanation of what precedes. Not this man, but Barabbas; now Barabbas was a robber. John 18:40. Then said Mich, now I know that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for my priest. Judges 17:13. The other great 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-- .

After this; things being so. How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor?

In supplication, it appears to be somewhat emphatical. I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart. 2 Kings 20:3.

Now sometimes refers to a particular time past specified or understood, and may be defined, at that time. He was now sensible of his mistake. Now and then, at one time and another, indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals. They now and then appear in offices of religion. If there were any such thing as spontaneous generation, a new species would now and then appear.

Applied to places which appear at intervals or in succession. A mead here, ther a heath, and now and then a wood. Now, now, repeated, is used to excite attention to something immediately to happen.

The present time or moment. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now does ever last. Now a daysIn this age. What men of spirit now a days, come to give sober judgment a new plays?