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provisory, a.|prəʊˈvaɪzərɪ|
[ad. F. provisoire or ad. med.L. *prōvīsōri-us: see provisor, -ory2.]
1. Subject to a provision or proviso; conditional.
1611Cotgr., Provisoire, prouisorie, conditionall, implying a limitation, including a prouiso. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 442 ‘Abide in me, and I in you’; if we take it provisory, Abide in me, and know that I shall then abide in you; or let me abide in you, or that I may abide in you. 1857Mayne Reid War-Trail lxv, ‘If yet in time’—ay, such provisory parenthesis was in my mind.
†2. Granting an ecclesiastical provision. Obs.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 744 He was likewise by the Popes prouisorie Bulles, translated to Canterbury.
3. = provisional a. 1.
1788Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 540 There remains an expression in the Arret, that it is provisory only. 1830R. Knox Béclard's Anat. 275 Bichat, M. Dupuytren,..and others, have admitted that these external and internal ossifications are provisory. 1895Daily News 20 June 5/7 It has been resolved..that the nomination of a Provisory Government will be the best way out of the difficulty.
4. That makes provision for eventualities.
1843Blackw. Mag. LIII. 222 To communicate secrets, delivered to her in strictest confidence, and imparted by her again with equal caution and provisory care, was the choicest occupation of her..life. |