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To submit for consideration or action. Immediate, not in the future. Present ability refers to a person's immediate capacity to do an act. A present conveyance is made with the intention that it take effect at once. In Commercial Paper law, to present a check means to submit it to the drawee for acceptance or payment. PRESENT. A gift, or wore properly the thing given. It is provided by the constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 9, n, 7, that "no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, [the United States] shall, without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, or office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." |
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Rather, Carmi's "psychic readymades," as he calls them, are a kind of modified bust portrait, leveling affect so as to more effectively evoke a primal undifferentiated presentness. And in "The Garrison of Cape Ann" he renders an evocatively dramatic sense of the presentness of the past: Runagate, Runagate" shows both the presentness of the past and the entanglement of historical and imagistic themes. |
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