You are the most immediate to our throne. --Shak.
2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
``Assemble we immediate council.'' --Shak.
Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some
immediate stroke. --Milton.
3. Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the
intervention of another object as a cause, means, or
agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an
immediate cause.
The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore
impossible. --Sir. W.
Hamilton.
{Immediate amputation} (Surg.), an amputation performed
within the first few hours after an injury, and before the
the effects of the shock have passed away.
Syn: Proximate; close; direct; next.