provisionary
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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 Edmund Burke
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 Francis W. Blagdon
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 Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
My mother it appears declines rapidly: her death is even feared, and should it happen, I cannot pretend to insist on the obstacles which her maternal cares and provisionary fears have raised.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
Of course it is all provisionary: I do not even know yet what is to be done with you, whether--whether you will stay with me, or go for a while to some school.
From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Ossip Schubin
