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† momenˈtaneous, a.
[f. L. mōmentāne-us (see momentane) + -ous.
Very common in the 17th c.]
1. Lasting but a moment; momentary.
c1610Women Saints 78 Contemning vile pleasure and momentaneous delighte. a1711Ken Preparatives Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 41 Or on this Momentaneous Stage, In a short Time to live an Age? 1801Fuseli Lect. Paint. iii. (1848) 407 Form displayed in space, and momentaneous energy, are the element of painting. 1921H. Poutsma Characters of Eng. Vb. & Expanded Form i. 2 The actions expressed by verbs..may be..momentaneous, i.e. covering only one moment, or comprised between two closely contiguous moments, so that the beginning and the end practically synchronize. 1921E. Sapir Language v. 108 ‘Cry out every now and then’ or ‘cry in fits and starts’ is momentaneous-iterative. 1923D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo vii. 163 Do I want this curious transparent blood of the antipodes, with its momentaneous feelings? 1926H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng. ii. §2. 545 When distinctly verbal in nature, the attributive past participle mostly has a momentaneous or resultative aspect.
2. Occurring in a moment, instantaneous.
1657W. Morice Coena quasi κοινὴ xv. 231 Though the previous dispositions were precedent, yet the introduction of the form is momentaneous. 1670W. Clarke Nat. Hist. Nitre 88 In which momentaneous explosion of the whole quantity all the force consists. 1692Ray Disc. iii. vi. (1732) 391 Shall this Dissolution be gradual and successive or momentaneous and sudden? 1793Holcroft tr. Lavater's Physiog. xxvii. 130 Creation of every kind is momentaneous.
†3. Pertaining to an infinitesimal division of time. Cf. moment 3 b. Obs.
1708Misc. Curiosa II. 128, I make use here, of what the celebrated Mr. Newton has demonstrated..concerning the Momentaneous Increments or Decrements of Quantities that Increase or Decrease by a continual Flux.
Hence † momenˈtaneously adv., in a moment, also, every moment; momenˈtaneousness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Instantaneousness, Momentaneousness, or happening in the Nick of Time. 1753N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 8 Bad Humours, which when once formed, increase momentaneously, and that too with great Velocity. 1782E. N. Blower George Bateman I. 225 Hassell, staggered by this application to his hinder part,..turned momentaneously round. 1921H. Poutsma Characters of Eng. Vb. & Expanded Form i. 5 [Actions expressed by verbs may be] momentaneously iterative, which may be graphically represented by a succession of dots. |