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 Burke, Edmund

She had already taken that provisionary leap into a mythical future which is one of the perfunctory attitudes of maidenhood.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday

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

At three o'clock the imperial dynasty was proclaimed as at an end, and a provisionary government installed.

From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche