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INSTANT.—‘Instant’ and ‘instantly’ are now used only of time. In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] they have their earlier meaning of ‘urgent,’ ‘urgently,’ as in Luk_23:23 ‘they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified’; Luk_7:4 ‘they besought him instantly’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘earnestly’). Cf. Erasmus, Paraphrase, i. 31, ‘whoso knocketh at the doore instantly, to him it shal be opened.’