provisionary

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Necessity had occasioned the formation of a provisionary school, where the pupils received rapidly the first notions of the attack and defence of places, after which they were sent to the armies.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

There was a ring at the door-bell about eight o’clock, which proved the herald of little Mrs. Snow, holding in one hand a provisionary vial.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday

These laws are based upon old Roman legislation, amended by ecclesiastical enactments brought hither by the Knights, and fortified by provisionary regulations issued by the several Grand Masters, and designed to meet special cases.

From The Story of Malta by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Assembly abolished the constitution of the year III., ordained the provisionary Consulate, and legalized the coup d’�tat in favour of Bonaparte.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various

The preamble of this law, standing as it now stands, has the lie direct given to it by the provisionary part of the act: if that can be called provisionary which makes no provision.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund