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provisionary, a. Now rare.|prəʊˈvɪʒənərɪ|
[f. provision n. + -ary1.]
1. = provisional a. 1.
1617Moryson Itin. ii. 86 His Lordship..appointed Sir Iohn Barkeley to supplie his place of Prouisionarie Gouernour of the Prouince of Connaght. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xv. I. 456 A provisionary scheme intended to last only till the coming of the Messiah. 1794Heron Inform. Powers at War 30 A provisionary government was appointed. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. iii. 58 In practical life probable evidence only raises a provisionary belief.
†2. That foresees and provides for the future; provident; = provisional a. 2. Obs.
1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lii. (1739) 93 To cast the government of the persons of their Wards out of the view of the Lords provisionary care. 1699Shaftesbury Charac. (1711) II. ii. i. iii. 89 [Nature's] provisionary Care and Concern for the whole Animal. 1784Sir J. Reynolds Disc. xii. (1876) 47 The provisionary methods Demosthenes and Cicero employed to assist their invention.
3. Of or pertaining to papal provisions: see provision n. 4.
1736Drake Eboracum ii. i. 436 The Archbishop of York..was by the pope's provisionary bulls translated to Canterbury. 1856H. O. Conant Eng. Transl. Bible iii. (1881) 19 note, The sale of these provisionary grants was a source of large income to the Papal courts.
†4. Of or pertaining to provisions or food-supply; = provisional a. 4. Obs. rare—1.
1613–18Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 41 For his prouisionary reuenues..the Kings Tenants..payd no money at all; but onely Victualls, Wheate, Beifes, Muttons [etc.].
5. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a proviso, a provision, or provisions (in a law, etc.).
1774Burke Amer. Tax. 8 The preamble of this law..has the lie direct given to it by the provisionary part of the act. |