Instant /(?)/

In·stant

Instant

a.
  1. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.
    Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.
    — Rom. xii. 12.
    I am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation.
  2. Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.
    Impending death is thine, and instant doom.
  3. Present; current.
    The instant time is always the fittest time.

Instant

adv.
  1. Instantly. [Poetic]
    Instant he flew with hospitable haste.

Instant

n.
  1. A point in time; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment; as, the situation may change in an instant.
    There is scarce an instant between their flourishing and their not being.
  2. A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3.