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Webster 1913 Edition
Urgent
Ur′gent
,Adj.
Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
“The urgent hour.” Shak.
Some
urgent
cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker.
The Egyptians were
urgent
upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.
Webster 1828 Edition
Urgent
URG'ENT
,Adj.
1.
Pressing with importunity. Ex. 12.2.
Pressing with necessity; violent; vehement; as an urgent case or occasion.