provisorily

English

Etymology

provisory +‎ -ly

Adverb

provisorily (comparative more provisorily, superlative most provisorily)

1. In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso.

   to admit a doctrine provisorily

   • 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     The judgment by which the phænomenon is thus provisorily referred , is called an hypothesis ,a supposition

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “provisorily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)