pro temporeadv.adj.

1468 in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 388 Þe tythandys did goode pro tempore.

1626 Let. 26 Jan. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 73 The Lord Chamberlain is like to be Lord Steward this parliament, pro tempore.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 106 Mr. Atturney was turn-key, pro tempore, and let them in single at one door.

1694 J. Howe Let. to Friend 14 A Spirit may assume a Body and animate it pro tempore without being substantially united with it.

1748 J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) ii. 70 Another might be appointed pro tempore to command his ship.

1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis 64 Inferior Officers of the Customs, and particularly that class of supernumerary tides~men who are employed, pro tempore, when there is hurry of business.

1828 Reg. Deb. Congr. 4 787 President Pro Tempore... The Senate proceeded to the election of a President pro tem.

1856 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 26 90 We started again for the village where he was residing pro tempore to collect taxes.

1905 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 4 Mar. 2/4 The Maine Senator relinquished his position as President pro tempore by announcing the final adjournment of the Fifty-eighth Congress.

1975 Jrnl. Law Soc. Scotl. (BNC) Apr. 140 The lease provided for payment of a rent which pro tempore at least was illegal.

2001 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 29 Aug. The Agreement does require for its sustenance a consent, pro tempore, to support the current constitutional settlement.

1649 State of Kingdome 6 What manner of debate must this bee, if of all three estates then wee must..build our future subsistence upon pro tempore concessions.

1759 E. W. Montagu Refl. Antient Republicks 353 The pro tempore Dictator soon came to be perpetual.

1805 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 1165 The most anxious duty of writing public Letters & Memorials..belongs to my Talents rather than to my pro-tempore Office.

1850 D. G. Mitchell Lorgnette I. 160 The pro tempore harangues of the Head of the Pilgrims, and all the fish-bladders of the Ecclesiologists.

1939 Science 17 Nov. 453/2 The standing committee on seismology..held a meeting under the pro tempore chairmanship of James B. Macelwane.

2004 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 9 July b3 I think it's an all-out effort to get independent contractors to cave in and become pro tempore employees of the court.