transitorily

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A corresponding germinal condition, the two-layered gastrula, occurs transitorily in the embryological history of all the other Metazoa, from the lowest Cnidaria and Vermes up to man.

From Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Variations caused by the factors mentioned act only transitorily, and the pressure shortly returns to normal.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

My mind felt, at times, quite confused; at other times, strange ideas shot transitorily through it, with the vividness of lightning; but they were only coruscations, and left no impressions.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various

Wasn't it my own phrase to speak of "that greater mind in men, in which we are but moments and transitorily lit cells?"

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

You remember the profound words in our Lord's pregnant parable of the seeds, how one class which transitorily was Christian, had for its characteristic that immediately with joy they received the word.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander