Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Urgent

Urgent , adjective

[Latin urgens, present participle of urgere: compare French urgent. See Urge.]

Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
The urgent hour. — Shakespeare
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