transitoryadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈtranzᵻt(ə)ri/,

/ˈtrɑːnzᵻt(ə)ri/,

/ˈtransᵻt(ə)ri/,

/ˈtrɑːnsᵻt(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈtrænzəˌtɔri/,

/ˈtræn(t)səˌtɔri/

Forms: late Middle English trancitorie, late Middle English trancitory, late Middle English transcytorye, late Middle English transetorie, late Middle English transetorrye, late Middle English transitoire, late Middle English transorye (transmission error), late Middle English transotorie, late Middle English transsitoyre, late Middle English–1600s transitorie, late Middle English–1600s transitorye, late Middle English–1600s transsitorie, late Middle English–1600s transsitory, late Middle English–1600s transytory, late Middle English–1600s transytorye, late Middle English– transitory, late Middle English–1500s trancytory, 1500s transsitorye, 1500s transytore, 1500s transytorie, 1500s traunsitorie, 1500s traunsitory, 1500s traunsitorye, 1500s traunsytory, 1500s–1600s transetory, 1500s–1600s transetorye, 1500s–1600s transitore; also Scottish pre-1700 transatory, pre-1700 transitoir, pre-1700 transitore, pre-1700 transitorey, pre-1700 transitoure.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French transitoire; Latin transitorius.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman transitorie, Middle French transitoire (French transitoire ) temporary (12th cent. in Old French; in early use frequently with reference to life in this world as contrasted with the afterlife), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin transitorius transient, passing (4th cent. in Jerome), relating to traffic (12th cent.; 13th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin transit- , past participial stem of transīre (see transit v.) + -ōrius -ory suffix².Compare Spanish transitorio (13th cent.), Catalan transitori , Portuguese transitório , Italian transitorio (all 14th cent.). With use in sense B. 1 compare Middle French, French transitoire transitory thing (14th cent. in the source translated in quot. a1500 at sense B. 1).

A. adj.

1. Not lasting; temporary; brief, fleeting; = transient adj. 1a.In early use, often in Christian contexts, contrasting life in this world with the (eternal) afterlife.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective]

slidinga900

scrithingOE

henwardOE

swifta1225

short livya1325

passing1340

flittingc1374

shadowy1374

temporalc1384

speedfula1400

transitory?c1400

brittlea1425

unabidingc1430

frail?c1450

indurablec1450

scrithel?c1475

caduke1483

transitorious1492

passanta1500

perishinga1500

caducea1513

fugitive?1518

caducal?1548

quick1548

delible1549

flittering1549

undurable?1555

shadowish1561

fleeting1563

vading1566

flightful1571

wanzing1571

transitive1575

slipping1581

diary1583

unlasting1585

never-lasting1588

flit1590

post-like1594

running1598

short-lived1598

short-winded1598

transient1599

unpermanent1607

flashy1609

of a day1612

passable1613

dureless1614

urgenta1616

waxena1616

decayable1617

horary1620

evanid1626

fugitable1628

short-dated1632

fugacious1635

ephemerala1639

impermanent1653

fungous1655

volatile1655

ephemerousa1660

unimmortal1667

timesome1674

while-being1674

of passage1680

journal1685

ephemeron1714

admovent1727

evanescent1728

meteorous1750

deciduous1763

preterient1786

ephemeridal1795

meteorica1802

meteor1803

ephemerean1804

ephemerid1804

evanescing1805

fleeted1810

fleet1812

unenduring1814

unremaining1817

unimmortalized1839

impersistent1849

flighty1850

uneternal1862

caducous1863

diurnal1866

horarious1866

brisk1879

evasive1881

picaresque1959

?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. pr. viii. l. 2232 But þe..beaute of þi body, how swiftly passyng is it and how transitorie. Certis it is more flittynge þan þe mutabilite of floures of þe somer sesoun.

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 827 Now yf he wot þat Ioye is transitorie [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 trancitorie].

a1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Bodl. e Mus.) 117 (MED) They answerde hym thanne, why he assemblede togedere the richesse of this world that is transcytorye.

c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 219 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 35 Þat eftire þis lyfe transitore euire-lestand lyfe is me before.

a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 127 (MED) Yf we forsake god & yeve vs to transetorie godis and vanites, sothely we shul neuer thenne come to the glorie of euerlastynge lyf.

1544 Act 35 Henry VIII c. 1 in 3rd Sess. Parl. Westmynster sig. A.iii^v This realme, after the kinges transitory lyfe,..shuld be destitute of a lawful gouernour.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India Ep. Ded. sig. aiij^v Considering that flesh must finish, I seeke for no quiet rest in this transitorie life.

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 280 Like Things of that transitory nature, they begin to weare away.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 3 That adventure..gave him also a transitory view of that excellent Lady.

1727 Wonderful Prophecy in J. Swift Misc. II. 260 This vain and transitory World will shortly be brought to its final Dissolution.

1772 tr. P. A. Guys Sentimental Journey through Greece III. xl. 143 He would get but a faint transitory glimpse, and fall again into the darkness of doubt and uncertainty.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 182 The chief symptoms menacing abortion are transitory pains in the back [etc.].

1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) II. 75 All the Continental Nations look upon our present peace as but transitory, momentary.

1921 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 1 Feb. 2/3 No doubt fascism is a transitory phenomenon.

1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Jan. 14/1 As a nation, we became fixated to the transitory moment of our victory.

2010 New Yorker 4 Oct. 24/3 The place is boring or, at best, of transitory enjoyment.

2. Of the nature of a passage or transition; transitional.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [adjective]

transitory1592

transitive1660

transitional1663

transitionary1685

gradual1692

gradative1840

gradational1842

unabrupt1865

liminala1916

1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xix. 1 This chapter hath..two parts, one transitory [L. transitiua] or of passage unto the things that follow.

1799 A. F. C. Kollmann Ess. Pract. Musical Composition vi. 43 A short transitory passage may even take place between the first Subject and its Answer, to connect them properly.

1847 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 487/2 The religion of Goethe hovers in a transitory state between belief and infidelity, security and doubt.

1906 Poor Law Comm. Ireland: Rep. Vice-regal Comm. I. 31 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3202) LI. 349 The transitory period between the old and new systems.

2010 Africa News (Nexis) 26 Aug. SA is in a transitory stage between a duty-based notion of society and an individualistic notion of society.

3. Law. Designating a lawsuit which is not restricted to a particular locality and may be carried out in any court which has jurisdiction over the defendant. Frequently in transitory action. Opposed to local adj. 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit > other types of action

mort d'ancestora1325

trespass on the case1429

action of detinue1467

mortancestry1471

replevin1515

non-finding1525

nisi prius1533

faint action1542

interpleadera1558

improbationc1575

assize1577

assumpsit1586

transitory action1594

trover1594

suit of the King's peace1607

detinuea1626

quia timet1628

choke-baila1637

reprobator1672

spulyie1678

petitory action1681

proprium1695

restitution of conjugal rights1720

amicable suit1768

noxal action1774

real action1818

witness action1892

class suit1894

non-jury1897

foreclosure action1905

class action1910

derivative action1934

paternity suit1945

1594 W. West Of Chancerie §36. sig. B4 in 3 Treat. 2nd Pt. Symbolæographie If a transitorie personal action be sued in a forein Countie, the defendant may stay the plaintif in Chauncery by Iniunction.

1665 G. Duncombe Tryals per Pais x. 133 The Jurors of one County may finde any transitory thing done in another County.

1708 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) 419 An Action of Trespass for Battery, is transitory and not local.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxiii. 384 Actions transitory follow the person of the defendant, territorial suits must be discussed in the territorial tribunal.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 390/1 Personal actions are for the most part transitory, i.e., their cause of action may be supposed to take place anywhere.

1894 Law Mag. & Law Rev. 19 87 The trespass sued upon was a local and not a transitory cause of action.

1919 J. M. Kerr Treat. Law of Pleading & Pract. 406 A civil action for libel is transitory, and may be brought and tried in any jurisdiction in which the libel was circulated.

2011 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 78 487 A transitory action arising abroad against a British subject may be brought in an English court.

†4. Trifling, insignificant. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial

eathlyc890

lighteOE

littleOE

small?c1225

singlec1449

easy1474

triflous1509

naughty1526

slender1530

slight1548

shrimpish1549

slipper1567

truanta1572

toyous1581

trivious1583

mean1585

silly1587

nicea1594

puny?1594

puisne1598

pusill1599

whindling1601

sapless1602

non-significant1603

poor1603

unsignificant1603

flea-bite1605

perishing1605

lank1607

weightless1610

fonda1616

penny farthing1615

triviala1616

unweighty1621

transitory1637

twattling1651

inconsiderate1655

unserious1655

nugal1656

small drink1656

slighty1662

minute1668

paddling1679

snitling1682

retail1697

Lilliputian1726

vain1731

rattletrap1760

peppercornish1762

peppercorn1791

underling1804

venial1806

lightweight1809

floccinaucical1826

small-bore1833

minified1837

trantlum1838

piffling1848

tea-tabular1855

potty1860

whipping-snapping1861

tea-gardeny1862

quiddling1863

twaddling1863

fidgeting1865

penny ante1865

feather-weighted1870

jerkwater1877

midget1879

mimsy1880

shirttail1881

two-by-four1885

footle1894

skittery1905

footery1929

Mickey Mouse1931

chickenshit1934

minoritized1945

marginal1952

marginalized1961

tea-party1961

little league1962

marginalizing1977

minnowy1991

1637 J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure v. sig. H4^v A transitory summe, as good that way As another.

1673 J. Dryden Assignation ii. ii. 14 You may scape with the loss of a Leg, or an arm, or some such transitory limb.

1673 J. Dryden Amboyna ii. i. 17 Remember, no transitory Sum, three hundred Quadruples in your own Countrey Gold.

B. n.

1. Chiefly in plural. A transitory, fleeting, or impermanent thing. Now rare.In quot. a1500 apparently (as a mass noun): worldly goods; material goods.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience > transient thing or being

shadowa1272

breathc1275

cloudc1384

cherry-fair1393

transitorya1500

fume1531

forwhilea1557

flitter1623

ephemeran1643

daysman1658

transient1660

fugitive1683

transiency1728

ephemera1751

ephemeron1771

perishable1822

toadstool1823

evanescence1830

a sometime thing1935

a1500 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Stowe) l. 16419 (MED) Lady [Mary]..fful ofte sythe, thurgh ffals ffauour off prosperyte and transytorye of this wrechched worlde, I ha fforgetyn the.

1595 T. I. World of Wonders To Rdr. sig. A2 Conclusion and shutting vp of these transitories and vanities of this mortall world are at hand.

1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 367 A comfortable transitory enjoyment of transitories.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 15 He that too closely imbraceth Transitories, is much the worse for them.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing vii. 66 This fleeting Transitory our Life.

a1702 W. Bagshaw Ess. on Union to Christ (1703) 146 Is not this to prefer..Transitories before Durables?

1777 Gibbons's Mourning Saint among Willows (rev. ed.) xix. 36 I have no relish for transitories; my sublimer views aspire for uncreated love.

1854 H. Hutchinson Relig. Experience & Prophecies 254 Look behind on the transitories of this earth.

1944 Freeport (Illinois) Jrnl.-Standard 8 July 4/2 Appreciate the transitories of war production, and the importance of looking ahead to peace.

2004 T. H. Peake Cinema & Life Devel. iii. 48 The transitories of life, and the depth of existence.

a. Nautical. The movable crosspiece of a cross-staff (cross-staff n. 2). rare (now historical).Chiefly in, or with reference to, the writings of English mathematician William Bourne (1535–82), who also uses transvastory and transversary in the same sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > measuring altitude > [noun] > cross-staff > limb of

transitory?1574

transom1594

transversary1595

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > cross-staff > limb of

transitory?1574

transom1594

transversary1595

thirty-cross1726

?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea vi. f. 26 To take the heigth of the Sunne, to knowe thy Altitude of the Pole aboue the Horizon, doe this:..Put the Transitorie [1580 Transuastorie; 1631 Transuersary] vpon the long staffe, then set the end of the long staffe close at the corner of your eye, [etc.].

1962 Mariner's Mirror 48 319 The lower end of the transitory is not directed to the horizon but to a point a few feet in front of him.

†b. A transit instrument or telescope. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > transit instrument > [noun]

transit instrument1744

transitory1744

transit circle1793

meridian circle1809

1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 647/3 The Sun's centre passed the meridian in the Transitory.

Compounds

Transitory Forum n. [after post-classical Latin forum transitorium (4th cent.)] A name for the Forum of Nerva in Rome. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1614 T. Godwin Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia i. i. ix. 7 It had the name of Forum Transitorium, the transitorie Forum, because there was transitus..a way or passage through it into three severall market places.

1685 P. Rycaut tr. Platina Lives Popes 32 The Transitory Forum [L. foro Transitorio], a place of greatest Concourse, and the most publick thorow-fare.

1889 Rome & Environs (new ed.) 70 The Forum of Nerva, or Transitory Forum, begun by Domitian.

1979 Modulus No. 13. 90/1 The remnants..of the Forum of Nerva or ‘Transitory Forum’ (97 A.D.) were absorbed into the urban fabric until becoming an integral part of the city.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	transitory
释义	transitoryadj.n. Brit. /ˈtranzᵻt(ə)ri/, /ˈtrɑːnzᵻt(ə)ri/, /ˈtransᵻt(ə)ri/, /ˈtrɑːnsᵻt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈtrænzəˌtɔri/, /ˈtræn(t)səˌtɔri/ Forms: late Middle English trancitorie, late Middle English trancitory, late Middle English transcytorye, late Middle English transetorie, late Middle English transetorrye, late Middle English transitoire, late Middle English transorye (transmission error), late Middle English transotorie, late Middle English transsitoyre, late Middle English–1600s transitorie, late Middle English–1600s transitorye, late Middle English–1600s transsitorie, late Middle English–1600s transsitory, late Middle English–1600s transytory, late Middle English–1600s transytorye, late Middle English– transitory, late Middle English–1500s trancytory, 1500s transsitorye, 1500s transytore, 1500s transytorie, 1500s traunsitorie, 1500s traunsitory, 1500s traunsitorye, 1500s traunsytory, 1500s–1600s transetory, 1500s–1600s transetorye, 1500s–1600s transitore; also Scottish pre-1700 transatory, pre-1700 transitoir, pre-1700 transitore, pre-1700 transitorey, pre-1700 transitoure. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French transitoire; Latin transitorius. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman transitorie, Middle French transitoire (French transitoire ) temporary (12th cent. in Old French; in early use frequently with reference to life in this world as contrasted with the afterlife), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin transitorius transient, passing (4th cent. in Jerome), relating to traffic (12th cent.; 13th cent. in a British source) < classical Latin transit- , past participial stem of transīre (see transit v.) + -ōrius -ory suffix².Compare Spanish transitorio (13th cent.), Catalan transitori , Portuguese transitório , Italian transitorio (all 14th cent.). With use in sense B. 1 compare Middle French, French transitoire transitory thing (14th cent. in the source translated in quot. a1500 at sense B. 1). A. adj. 1. Not lasting; temporary; brief, fleeting; = transient adj. 1a.In early use, often in Christian contexts, contrasting life in this world with the (eternal) afterlife. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] slidinga900 scrithingOE henwardOE swifta1225 short livya1325 passing1340 flittingc1374 shadowy1374 temporalc1384 speedfula1400 transitory?c1400 brittlea1425 unabidingc1430 frail?c1450 indurablec1450 scrithel?c1475 caduke1483 transitorious1492 passanta1500 perishinga1500 caducea1513 fugitive?1518 caducal?1548 quick1548 delible1549 flittering1549 undurable?1555 shadowish1561 fleeting1563 vading1566 flightful1571 wanzing1571 transitive1575 slipping1581 diary1583 unlasting1585 never-lasting1588 flit1590 post-like1594 running1598 short-lived1598 short-winded1598 transient1599 unpermanent1607 flashy1609 of a day1612 passable1613 dureless1614 urgenta1616 waxena1616 decayable1617 horary1620 evanid1626 fugitable1628 short-dated1632 fugacious1635 ephemerala1639 impermanent1653 fungous1655 volatile1655 ephemerousa1660 unimmortal1667 timesome1674 while-being1674 of passage1680 journal1685 ephemeron1714 admovent1727 evanescent1728 meteorous1750 deciduous1763 preterient1786 ephemeridal1795 meteorica1802 meteor1803 ephemerean1804 ephemerid1804 evanescing1805 fleeted1810 fleet1812 unenduring1814 unremaining1817 unimmortalized1839 impersistent1849 flighty1850 uneternal1862 caducous1863 diurnal1866 horarious1866 brisk1879 evasive1881 picaresque1959 ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. pr. viii. l. 2232 But þe..beaute of þi body, how swiftly passyng is it and how transitorie. Certis it is more flittynge þan þe mutabilite of floures of þe somer sesoun. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 827 Now yf he wot þat Ioye is transitorie [c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 trancitorie]. a1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Bodl. e Mus.) 117 (MED) They answerde hym thanne, why he assemblede togedere the richesse of this world that is transcytorye. c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 219 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 35 Þat eftire þis lyfe transitore euire-lestand lyfe is me before. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 127 (MED) Yf we forsake god & yeve vs to transetorie godis and vanites, sothely we shul neuer thenne come to the glorie of euerlastynge lyf. 1544 Act 35 Henry VIII c. 1 in 3rd Sess. Parl. Westmynster sig. A.iii^v This realme, after the kinges transitory lyfe,..shuld be destitute of a lawful gouernour. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India Ep. Ded. sig. aiij^v Considering that flesh must finish, I seeke for no quiet rest in this transitorie life. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 280 Like Things of that transitory nature, they begin to weare away. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 3 That adventure..gave him also a transitory view of that excellent Lady. 1727 Wonderful Prophecy in J. Swift Misc. II. 260 This vain and transitory World will shortly be brought to its final Dissolution. 1772 tr. P. A. Guys Sentimental Journey through Greece III. xl. 143 He would get but a faint transitory glimpse, and fall again into the darkness of doubt and uncertainty. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 182 The chief symptoms menacing abortion are transitory pains in the back [etc.]. 1859 C. Kingsley Misc. (1860) II. 75 All the Continental Nations look upon our present peace as but transitory, momentary. 1921 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 1 Feb. 2/3 No doubt fascism is a transitory phenomenon. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Jan. 14/1 As a nation, we became fixated to the transitory moment of our victory. 2010 New Yorker 4 Oct. 24/3 The place is boring or, at best, of transitory enjoyment. 2. Of the nature of a passage or transition; transitional. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [adjective] transitory1592 transitive1660 transitional1663 transitionary1685 gradual1692 gradative1840 gradational1842 unabrupt1865 liminala1916 1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xix. 1 This chapter hath..two parts, one transitory [L. transitiua] or of passage unto the things that follow. 1799 A. F. C. Kollmann Ess. Pract. Musical Composition vi. 43 A short transitory passage may even take place between the first Subject and its Answer, to connect them properly. 1847 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 487/2 The religion of Goethe hovers in a transitory state between belief and infidelity, security and doubt. 1906 Poor Law Comm. Ireland: Rep. Vice-regal Comm. I. 31 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3202) LI. 349 The transitory period between the old and new systems. 2010 Africa News (Nexis) 26 Aug. SA is in a transitory stage between a duty-based notion of society and an individualistic notion of society. 3. Law. Designating a lawsuit which is not restricted to a particular locality and may be carried out in any court which has jurisdiction over the defendant. Frequently in transitory action. Opposed to local adj. 5. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit > other types of action mort d'ancestora1325 trespass on the case1429 action of detinue1467 mortancestry1471 replevin1515 non-finding1525 nisi prius1533 faint action1542 interpleadera1558 improbationc1575 assize1577 assumpsit1586 transitory action1594 trover1594 suit of the King's peace1607 detinuea1626 quia timet1628 choke-baila1637 reprobator1672 spulyie1678 petitory action1681 proprium1695 restitution of conjugal rights1720 amicable suit1768 noxal action1774 real action1818 witness action1892 class suit1894 non-jury1897 foreclosure action1905 class action1910 derivative action1934 paternity suit1945 1594 W. West Of Chancerie §36. sig. B4 in 3 Treat. 2nd Pt. Symbolæographie If a transitorie personal action be sued in a forein Countie, the defendant may stay the plaintif in Chauncery by Iniunction. 1665 G. Duncombe Tryals per Pais x. 133 The Jurors of one County may finde any transitory thing done in another County. 1708 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) 419 An Action of Trespass for Battery, is transitory and not local. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxiii. 384 Actions transitory follow the person of the defendant, territorial suits must be discussed in the territorial tribunal. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 390/1 Personal actions are for the most part transitory, i.e., their cause of action may be supposed to take place anywhere. 1894 Law Mag. & Law Rev. 19 87 The trespass sued upon was a local and not a transitory cause of action. 1919 J. M. Kerr Treat. Law of Pleading & Pract. 406 A civil action for libel is transitory, and may be brought and tried in any jurisdiction in which the libel was circulated. 2011 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 78 487 A transitory action arising abroad against a British subject may be brought in an English court. †4. Trifling, insignificant. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial eathlyc890 lighteOE littleOE small?c1225 singlec1449 easy1474 triflous1509 naughty1526 slender1530 slight1548 shrimpish1549 slipper1567 truanta1572 toyous1581 trivious1583 mean1585 silly1587 nicea1594 puny?1594 puisne1598 pusill1599 whindling1601 sapless1602 non-significant1603 poor1603 unsignificant1603 flea-bite1605 perishing1605 lank1607 weightless1610 fonda1616 penny farthing1615 triviala1616 unweighty1621 transitory1637 twattling1651 inconsiderate1655 unserious1655 nugal1656 small drink1656 slighty1662 minute1668 paddling1679 snitling1682 retail1697 Lilliputian1726 vain1731 rattletrap1760 peppercornish1762 peppercorn1791 underling1804 venial1806 lightweight1809 floccinaucical1826 small-bore1833 minified1837 trantlum1838 piffling1848 tea-tabular1855 potty1860 whipping-snapping1861 tea-gardeny1862 quiddling1863 twaddling1863 fidgeting1865 penny ante1865 feather-weighted1870 jerkwater1877 midget1879 mimsy1880 shirttail1881 two-by-four1885 footle1894 skittery1905 footery1929 Mickey Mouse1931 chickenshit1934 minoritized1945 marginal1952 marginalized1961 tea-party1961 little league1962 marginalizing1977 minnowy1991 1637 J. Shirley Lady of Pleasure v. sig. H4^v A transitory summe, as good that way As another. 1673 J. Dryden Assignation ii. ii. 14 You may scape with the loss of a Leg, or an arm, or some such transitory limb. 1673 J. Dryden Amboyna ii. i. 17 Remember, no transitory Sum, three hundred Quadruples in your own Countrey Gold. B. n. 1. Chiefly in plural. A transitory, fleeting, or impermanent thing. Now rare.In quot. a1500 apparently (as a mass noun): worldly goods; material goods. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience > transient thing or being shadowa1272 breathc1275 cloudc1384 cherry-fair1393 transitorya1500 fume1531 forwhilea1557 flitter1623 ephemeran1643 daysman1658 transient1660 fugitive1683 transiency1728 ephemera1751 ephemeron1771 perishable1822 toadstool1823 evanescence1830 a sometime thing1935 a1500 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Stowe) l. 16419 (MED) Lady [Mary]..fful ofte sythe, thurgh ffals ffauour off prosperyte and transytorye of this wrechched worlde, I ha fforgetyn the. 1595 T. I. World of Wonders To Rdr. sig. A2 Conclusion and shutting vp of these transitories and vanities of this mortall world are at hand. 1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 367 A comfortable transitory enjoyment of transitories. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 15 He that too closely imbraceth Transitories, is much the worse for them. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing vii. 66 This fleeting Transitory our Life. a1702 W. Bagshaw Ess. on Union to Christ (1703) 146 Is not this to prefer..Transitories before Durables? 1777 Gibbons's Mourning Saint among Willows (rev. ed.) xix. 36 I have no relish for transitories; my sublimer views aspire for uncreated love. 1854 H. Hutchinson Relig. Experience & Prophecies 254 Look behind on the transitories of this earth. 1944 Freeport (Illinois) Jrnl.-Standard 8 July 4/2 Appreciate the transitories of war production, and the importance of looking ahead to peace. 2004 T. H. Peake Cinema & Life Devel. iii. 48 The transitories of life, and the depth of existence. 2. a. Nautical. The movable crosspiece of a cross-staff (cross-staff n. 2). rare (now historical).Chiefly in, or with reference to, the writings of English mathematician William Bourne (1535–82), who also uses transvastory and transversary in the same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > measuring altitude > [noun] > cross-staff > limb of transitory?1574 transom1594 transversary1595 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > cross-staff > limb of transitory?1574 transom1594 transversary1595 thirty-cross1726 ?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea vi. f. 26 To take the heigth of the Sunne, to knowe thy Altitude of the Pole aboue the Horizon, doe this:..Put the Transitorie [1580 Transuastorie; 1631 Transuersary] vpon the long staffe, then set the end of the long staffe close at the corner of your eye, [etc.]. 1962 Mariner's Mirror 48 319 The lower end of the transitory is not directed to the horizon but to a point a few feet in front of him. †b. A transit instrument or telescope. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > transit instrument > [noun] transit instrument1744 transitory1744 transit circle1793 meridian circle1809 1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 647/3 The Sun's centre passed the meridian in the Transitory. Compounds Transitory Forum n. [after post-classical Latin forum transitorium (4th cent.)] A name for the Forum of Nerva in Rome. Now rare. ΚΠ 1614 T. Godwin Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia i. i. ix. 7 It had the name of Forum Transitorium, the transitorie Forum, because there was transitus..a way or passage through it into three severall market places. 1685 P. Rycaut tr. Platina Lives Popes 32 The Transitory Forum [L. foro Transitorio], a place of greatest Concourse, and the most publick thorow-fare. 1889 Rome & Environs (new ed.) 70 The Forum of Nerva, or Transitory Forum, begun by Domitian. 1979 Modulus No. 13. 90/1 The remnants..of the Forum of Nerva or ‘Transitory Forum’ (97 A.D.) were absorbed into the urban fabric until becoming an integral part of the city. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?c1400
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