provisionaladj.n.

Brit.

/prəˈvɪʒn̩(ə)l/,

/prəˈvɪʒən(ə)l/, U.S.

/prəˈvɪʒ(ə)nəl/,

/proʊˈvɪʒ(ə)nəl/

Forms: see provision n. and -al suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: provision n., -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < provision n. + -al suffix¹. Compare post-classical Latin provisionalis of the nature of a temporary provision (a1595), conditional (1603 in a British source), Middle French provisional , provisionnal , provisionnel of the nature of a temporary provision (1484; French provisionnel ), Old Occitan (Gascon) provisional (1492), Spanish provisional (mid 16th cent.). Compare provisionally adv.

A. adj.

a. Of, belonging to, or of the nature of a temporary provision or arrangement; provided or adopted for the time being; supplying the place of something regular, permanent, or final. Also: accepted or used in default of something better; tentative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [adjective] > temporary or provisional

whilwendlicc1000

whilenda1050

specialc1400

seasonable1549

temporary1567

provisional1597

provisionary1617

temporaneal1625

provisory1630

interimistical1643

pro tempore1649

temporaneous1656

non-permanent1782

jury-rigged1788

ad interim1806

interim1808

meantime1840

running1851

flying1857

pro tem1858

interimistic1859

temp1909

caretaker1945

1597 [implied in: Queen Elizabeth I Let. 28 Oct. (1935) 254 (modernized text) We have thus directed you provisionally how you shall proceed in these occasions whereof we have advertisement daily from you. (at provisionally adv.)].

1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 41 Hee and they were glad and fayne to come to a prouisionall agreement.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 68 Sir Arthur Sauage..was appointed prouisionall Gouernour of the Prouince of Connaght.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 192 The Church should not be without a provisional Pastor.

1798 Deb. Congr. U.S. 24 Apr. (1855) II. 1525 A bill from the Senate, authorizing the President of the United States to raise a provisional army of 20,000 men.

1861 Lee in M. A. Jackson Gen. Jackson 166 I have the pleasure of sending you a commission of brigadier-general in the Provisional Army.

1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1875) xi. i. 399 The intellectual spirit does not regard its conclusions as being at any time final, but always provisional.

1893 J. Tuckey tr. B. Hatschek Amphioxus 158 This primary caudal fin..is only a provisional formation.

1900 Congress. Rec. 25 Jan. 1171/2 Will the Senator tell me who was the provisional governor appointed by President Johnson?

1931 T. C. Angus et al. in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 108 340 We think the provisional adoption of a name is justified..and suggest ‘Calciferol’ in view of the high antirachitic activity of the substance.

1993 Official Rules of Golf (U.S. Golf Assoc. & Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews) ii. i. 24 The player has played any stroke with a provisional ball from the place where the original ball is likely to be.

†b. Preparatory, preliminary. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective]

preparatory1442

preparative1530

preparing1606

provisional1619

preliminary1650

parasceuological1671

parasceuastic1672

prep1839

1619 J. Hales Let. 17 Jan. 68 in Golden Remains (1659) That Sessions consultatory and Provisionall shall be private, but Sessions wherein they discusse and conclude shall be publick.

c. Of a postage stamp: put into circulation temporarily, usually owing to the unavailability of the definitive issue.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [adjective] > types of postage stamp

provisional1883

definitive1929

1883 Standard (Albert Lea, Minnesota) 10 May The stamps which are most in demand..are the provisional stamps issued from 1844 to 1846 by the postmasters of Baltimore, St. Louis and Brattleboro.

1929 K. B. Stiles Stamps i. 7 ‘Tentative’ is exactly the word to describe provisional stamps. It implies that they are to be in postal use for a short while only.

1979 R. Cabeen Stand. Handbk. Stamp Collecting 435 Unless the reason for the provisional issue disappears within a short time, the stamp or stamps are replaced by definitive issues.

2004 Stamp Mag. Aug. 8/3 In 1845 a New York Postmaster's Provisional stamp was issued featuring a portrait of George Washington.

†2. Characterized by or exhibiting foresight; that provides for the future; provident; anticipatory. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > provident foresight, prudence > [adjective]

purveyable?a1425

pensivec1425

providenta1450

provide?a1475

purveyanta1500

prospective1581

prospecting1602

provisional1603

providentiala1646

provisionary1647

prospicient1654

provisive1677

forethoughtful1809

far-seeing1837

provisory1843

1603 in H. Stocks Rec. Borough Leicester (1923) IV. 1 Theire Remayneth unto us no farther aucthoritie then by provizionall care to applye our uttermost helpe [etc.].

1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 523 Either from a pressing necessity, or a foreseeing and prouisionall carefulnes.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 370 The Wise God that foresaw this Sin..was not wanting in providing a fit provisional Remedy against it.

1753 Sixth Let. of N.R.'s 73 A resolution chiefly to insult a person, and (as a provisional defence against any future accusations of their conduct) to rummage all his past life for something odious, low, or blameable.

1763 O. Goldsmith in R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. I. Introd. p. xxxix This provisional care in every species of Quadrupedes, of bringing forth at the fittest seasons.

3. Of, relating to, or done with a proviso; conditional.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adjective]

conditionalc1380

conditionate1533

conditionated1581

otherwise1602

provisory1611

cautionated1623

provisionala1626

provisive1650

conditioneda1656

subject1662

limitative1682

springing1685

eventual1692

contingent1710

stipulated1766

provisionary1775

conditional1864

mitigated1884

a1626 F. Bacon Charge Against William Talbot in Resuscitatio (1657) 58 A Mans Allegeance, must be Independant, not provisionall, and conditionall.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Provisional,..done by way of Proviso.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Provisional..belonging to a Proviso.

1758 T. Brecknock Plan Est. Gen. Peace of Europe 12 The French King farther declares, that it is not his Meaning or Intent to defeat or elude this provisional Article.

1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 3 There is enough in it to afford an ample justification to the provisional acceptance your Lordship has been pleased to give to it.

1869 T. Boese Public Educ. N.Y. 107 The Society..made earnest efforts to have this provisional clause stricken out.

1911 Times 25 Mar. 20/1 A provisional clause has been drafted for insertion in marine policies insuring goods to River Plate ports.

1985 Church Times 11 Jan. 12/5 Both in the Book of Common Prayer and in the Alternative Service Book the promises made by the candidates..are properly provisional, with ‘the Lord being my helper’ or some such proviso attached.

†4. Christian Church. = provisionary adj. 4. Obsolete.

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society > faith > worship > benefice > advowson > [adjective] > that grants appointment to non-vacant benefice

provisory1601

provisional1700

provisionary1736

1700 F. Atterbury Rights Eng. Convocation iii. 80 Henry the VIIIth..involved them All in a Premunire for submitting to Wolsey's Legatine Character, unauthorised by the Crown; not for Procuring, or making Use of Provisional Bulls..Nor yet merely for Appearing and Making Suit in his Courts.

1739 W. Harris tr. J. Ware Wks. conc. Ireland I. 150 William Shirwood succeeded by a Provisional Bull from Pope Pius the IId, and was consecrated in 1460.

1761 T. Smollett et al. tr. Voltaire Wks. I. viii. 93 Henry..got himself declared supreme head of the church of England by his clergy, and the parliament afterwards confirmed this title, and abolished the pope's authority throughout the kingdom, together with his annates, Peter's pence, and provisional grants.

†5. Of or relating to provisions or supplies. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [adjective]

provisionary1612

annonary1651

provisional1812

1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 33 228 Both words [plenty and abundance]..are metaphorically applied to the provisional state of the country, to its eatable stock.

1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 509 From Covent garden..we must take a peep at the other points of provisional concentration about town.

B. n.

†1. A person for whom (a particular sort of) provision is made. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 316 A Popish Pervert and a Protestant Convert are indeed two different Provisionals.

2. Chiefly in plural.

a. A person whose employment or tenure of office is temporary; a member of a provisional government, etc.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > [noun] > provisional governor

provisional1845

1845 Times 25 Nov. 7/4 The provisionals had nothing to do with the matter.

1848 A. H. Clough Let. 26 Feb. in T. Arnold N.Z. Lett. (1966) 78 Will the army and Nationals rally around this government, or allow the people to set up their Provisionals. Inasmuch as the Provisionals are all in the Ministry, I suppose they may please themselves.

1866 T. P. Kettell Hist. Great Rebellion ix. 118 The provisionals were enlisted for the space of twelve months, to go wherever ordered.

1937 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 189 35/2 Giving appointing officers a free hand in naming provisionals who..may later be covered in as permanent appointments.

1998 Admin. Sci. Q. 43 943 Overlaid on this threefold occupational distinction are differences between career civil service employees and ‘provisionals’.

b. A member of the Provisional I.R.A. (see Provisional I.R.A. n. at Compounds).

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society > armed hostility > warrior > member of specific paramilitary group > [noun]

Sanfedist1842

squadrist1938

Sternist1944

werewolf1945

provisional1970

Provo1971

Razakar1971

Schutzbündler1974

paramilitary1975

Koevoet1983

1970 Times 13 Oct. 2/2 A statement attributed to the I.R.A. publicity bureau..claimed that the split in the movement between the traditional..faction and the ‘provisionals’ had been healed.

1974 Listener 14 Mar. 323/1 The Provisionals' traditional method of discipline: putting a gun barrel behind a man's knee and blowing off his knee cap.

1995 K. Toolis Rebel Hearts (1996) ii. 51 The British Army, reacting to an increased threat from the Provisionals, decided to upgrade its fortification along the border with the Irish Republic.

3. Something that is provisional, esp. a provisional stamp.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp > types of

black1863

penny black1863

local1865

error1866

toadskin1867

fiscal1869

imperforate1874

tête-bêche1874

halfpenny1881

provisional1885

British colonial1902

precancel1903

definitive1929

airmail1930

pictorial1934

perfin1945

1885 E. B. Evans Philatelic Handbk. 93 Ecquador..Provisionals. Black surcharge; value in words in two lines.

1929 K. B. Stiles Stamps i. 7 A striking illustration of definitives and provisionals is to be found in the postal history of Portugal.

1975 B. Gunston Philatelist's Compan. 246 Provisionals may be crude local productions, reprinted issues from another country, or an issue overprinted by a successful revolutionary administration.

1992 Independent 16 Jan. 14/5 Actually I never even got a provisional. I just learnt by getting into a car and seeing what happened.

Compounds

provisional callus n. [after French cal provisoire (1822 or earlier)] Medicine the ring of callus originally formed at the site of a bone fracture.

ΚΠ

1829 R. D. Grainger Elem. Gen. Anat. 417 Baron Dupuytren concludes from his investigations that there are two distinct processes in the union of fracture, or rather that a double callus is formed. The first, which he calls provisional callus, ‘cal provisoire’ is formed by a deposition either in the periosteum alone, or in that membrane and in the cellular, and even in the muscular tissues.

1830 Lancet 22 May 263/2 The temporary union, the provisional callus, which holds the ends of the bone together, is not fully ossified before the fortieth, fiftieth, or sixtieth day.

1856 R. Druitt Surgeon's Vade Mecum (ed. 7) 217 The formation of what is called a provisional callus, that is to say, a ferrule of new bone encircling both fragments.

1908 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 199 259 When a fracture takes place without rupture of the periosteum, the union of bone occurs so perfectly that it is difficult after a time to discern the seat of fracture, and at no time is there much if any provisional callus.

1996 Biomaterials 17 1494/2 The provisional callus develops from the very soft and easily disrupted haematoma, and as the definitive callus is formed, it becomes increasingly more mineralized and gains in strength.

provisional driving licence n. a probationary licence issued to a learner driver and superseded by a full licence on passing a driving test.

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1935 Times 16 Oct. 4/4 Fined 20s. at Cambridge Police Court yesterday for driving a motor-car without supervision while holding a provisional driving licence, and 5s. for not signing the licence.

1974 Guardian 22 Mar. 8/7 The Environment Department has turned down a plea for stricter eyesight tests for people applying for their first provisional driving licence.

1995 J. Miller & M. Stacey Driving Instructor's Handbk. (ed. 8) i. 24 Getting to know the students before they take to the roads should result in them thinking about you first when they apply for their provisional driving licence and are looking for an instructor.

provisional government n. (also with capital initials) an interim or temporary government, esp. one set up to govern until constitutional self-government or democracy can be established or restored; (also) government of this nature.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > [noun] > other types of government

regency1643

myriarchy1650

responsible government1782

charter-government1796

co-government1834

minority government1859

internationalism1879

minority rule1886

Labour government1892

provisional government1916

paepae1937

1711 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1711 515 He recommended also to the Empress his Mother, the provisional Government of his faithful Subjects.

1803 M. Cutler Let. 30 Nov. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 148 Look at the power given to the President by the provisional government of Louisiana.

1916 W. B. Wells & ‘N. Marlowe’ Hist. Irish Rebellion of 1916 ix. 47 At the Post Office was established the Headquarters of the ‘Provisional Government of the Irish Republic’.

2002 N.Y. Times 23 June iv. 2/4 The obvious ratcheting down of the coalition's military presence was encouraged by the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the president of the provisional government.

Provisional I.R.A. n. an Irish Republican paramilitary organization, formed in December 1969 and historically advocating the use of violence to pursue its political aims.

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society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > paramilitary groups spec. > [noun]

U.V.F.1913

squadra1922

Sturmabteilung1923

steel helmet1925

Schutzbund1927

new guard1932

Silver Shirts1934

Stern gang1944

Umkhonto we Sizwe1961

nahal1963

MK1964

Provisional I.R.A.1970

Black September1971

Red Brigade1971

Black Septembrist1972

U.D.A.1972

Symbionese Liberation Army1973

U.F.F.1973

Amal1976

death squad1976

INLA1979

1970 Times 7 Apr. 10/3 Our four informants denied that the provisional I.R.A. in Belfast had been responsible for the agitation that led to the rioting in Ballymurphy last week.

1986 New Statesman 10 Oct. 8/2 Eight people had been killed by loyalists, one by the RUC, one by the army, and 33 by the Provisional IRA and INLA.

2000 S. McKay Northern Protestants 54 The Provos are the Provisional IRA, which broke away from the Official IRA in 1969 to become the dominant republican body, with Sinn Féin as its political wing.

provisional licence n. (a) a temporary licence issued for a limited period; (b) = provisional driving licence n.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving or operating a motor vehicle > driving licence

provisional licence1803

international driving permit1914

1803 Times 24 Oct. 1/3 We do further authorize and require the said Lord Mayor..to grant under his hand and seal to the Alien delivering such account, a provisional licence to reside within Great Britain.

1889 Times 4 Oct. 6/3 A new licence altogether would be required for the new building, and a provisional licence was applied for, which would not come into operation until the building was completed.

1973 Salisbury (Maryland) Daily Times 27 Apr. 9/3 Issuance of a provisional license does not alter the requirement for annual license renewal.

1990 D. Bolger Journey Home (1991) ii. 78 The evening, a week later, when I caught him trying to tear a piece off my provisional licence when he was stuck for roach paper.

provisional order n. Law (in Britain) an order made by a Minister of the Crown under the authority of a statute, but requiring confirmation in an Act of Parliament before it takes legal effect.

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society > law > [noun] > provisional order

provisional order1848

1848 Act 11 & 12 Victoria c. 63 s. x They shall make a Provisional Order under their Hands and Seal of Office.

1870 Act 33 & 34 Victoria c. 1 §2 Any Select Committee of the House of Commons to which any Bill for confirming Provisional Orders has been referred in relation to any Provisional Order therein contained may examine witnesses upon oath.

1963 J. F. Garner Admin. Law iii. 42 Provisional orders are made by a Minister of the Crown under the authority of a statute, and they are therefore sometimes described as a form of delegated or subordinate legislation, but they have no legal force until they have been included (usually by way of reference in a schedule) in a Provisional Orders Confirmation Act.

1971 S. A. de Smith Constit. & Admin. Law xv. 342 Provisional orders, which do not have legal effect till confirmed by Act of Parliament and are therefore not a form of delegated legislation at all.

2005 Times (Nexis) 14 Oct. 84 Bills for confirming a provisional order which did not fall within the expression ‘public Bill’ by virtue of section 5 of the 1911 Act.

Derivatives

provisioˈnality n. provisionalness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > quality of being temporary or provisional

temporariness1695

temporaneousness1727

provisionality1821

provisionalness1874

the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > terms of agreement > a condition or stipulation > quality of being conditional

provisionality1821

provisionalness1874

1821 Examiner 821/2 Open your eyes..and you will see that provisionality itself is infused into all the branches of your system.

1940 Amer. Anthropologist 42 672 Whenever arguments or conclusions are based on scant data, their provisionality is indicated.

2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Nov. 51/1 His strength is..in conjuring up a constant state of provisionality (one moment contradicts the last as readily as the main character does).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	provisional
释义	provisionaladj.n. Brit. /prəˈvɪʒn̩(ə)l/, /prəˈvɪʒən(ə)l/, U.S. /prəˈvɪʒ(ə)nəl/, /proʊˈvɪʒ(ə)nəl/ Forms: see provision n. and -al suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: provision n., -al suffix¹. Etymology: < provision n. + -al suffix¹. Compare post-classical Latin provisionalis of the nature of a temporary provision (a1595), conditional (1603 in a British source), Middle French provisional , provisionnal , provisionnel of the nature of a temporary provision (1484; French provisionnel ), Old Occitan (Gascon) provisional (1492), Spanish provisional (mid 16th cent.). Compare provisionally adv. A. adj. 1. a. Of, belonging to, or of the nature of a temporary provision or arrangement; provided or adopted for the time being; supplying the place of something regular, permanent, or final. Also: accepted or used in default of something better; tentative. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [adjective] > temporary or provisional whilwendlicc1000 whilenda1050 specialc1400 seasonable1549 temporary1567 provisional1597 provisionary1617 temporaneal1625 provisory1630 interimistical1643 pro tempore1649 temporaneous1656 non-permanent1782 jury-rigged1788 ad interim1806 interim1808 meantime1840 running1851 flying1857 pro tem1858 interimistic1859 temp1909 caretaker1945 1597 [implied in: Queen Elizabeth I Let. 28 Oct. (1935) 254 (modernized text) We have thus directed you provisionally how you shall proceed in these occasions whereof we have advertisement daily from you. (at provisionally adv.)]. 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 41 Hee and they were glad and fayne to come to a prouisionall agreement. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 68 Sir Arthur Sauage..was appointed prouisionall Gouernour of the Prouince of Connaght. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 192 The Church should not be without a provisional Pastor. 1798 Deb. Congr. U.S. 24 Apr. (1855) II. 1525 A bill from the Senate, authorizing the President of the United States to raise a provisional army of 20,000 men. 1861 Lee in M. A. Jackson Gen. Jackson 166 I have the pleasure of sending you a commission of brigadier-general in the Provisional Army. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1875) xi. i. 399 The intellectual spirit does not regard its conclusions as being at any time final, but always provisional. 1893 J. Tuckey tr. B. Hatschek Amphioxus 158 This primary caudal fin..is only a provisional formation. 1900 Congress. Rec. 25 Jan. 1171/2 Will the Senator tell me who was the provisional governor appointed by President Johnson? 1931 T. C. Angus et al. in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 108 340 We think the provisional adoption of a name is justified..and suggest ‘Calciferol’ in view of the high antirachitic activity of the substance. 1993 Official Rules of Golf (U.S. Golf Assoc. & Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews) ii. i. 24 The player has played any stroke with a provisional ball from the place where the original ball is likely to be. †b. Preparatory, preliminary. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] preparatory1442 preparative1530 preparing1606 provisional1619 preliminary1650 parasceuological1671 parasceuastic1672 prep1839 1619 J. Hales Let. 17 Jan. 68 in Golden Remains (1659) That Sessions consultatory and Provisionall shall be private, but Sessions wherein they discusse and conclude shall be publick. c. Of a postage stamp: put into circulation temporarily, usually owing to the unavailability of the definitive issue. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [adjective] > types of postage stamp provisional1883 definitive1929 1883 Standard (Albert Lea, Minnesota) 10 May The stamps which are most in demand..are the provisional stamps issued from 1844 to 1846 by the postmasters of Baltimore, St. Louis and Brattleboro. 1929 K. B. Stiles Stamps i. 7 ‘Tentative’ is exactly the word to describe provisional stamps. It implies that they are to be in postal use for a short while only. 1979 R. Cabeen Stand. Handbk. Stamp Collecting 435 Unless the reason for the provisional issue disappears within a short time, the stamp or stamps are replaced by definitive issues. 2004 Stamp Mag. Aug. 8/3 In 1845 a New York Postmaster's Provisional stamp was issued featuring a portrait of George Washington. †2. Characterized by or exhibiting foresight; that provides for the future; provident; anticipatory. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > provident foresight, prudence > [adjective] purveyable?a1425 pensivec1425 providenta1450 provide?a1475 purveyanta1500 prospective1581 prospecting1602 provisional1603 providentiala1646 provisionary1647 prospicient1654 provisive1677 forethoughtful1809 far-seeing1837 provisory1843 1603 in H. Stocks Rec. Borough Leicester (1923) IV. 1 Theire Remayneth unto us no farther aucthoritie then by provizionall care to applye our uttermost helpe [etc.]. 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 523 Either from a pressing necessity, or a foreseeing and prouisionall carefulnes. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 370 The Wise God that foresaw this Sin..was not wanting in providing a fit provisional Remedy against it. 1753 Sixth Let. of N.R.'s 73 A resolution chiefly to insult a person, and (as a provisional defence against any future accusations of their conduct) to rummage all his past life for something odious, low, or blameable. 1763 O. Goldsmith in R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. I. Introd. p. xxxix This provisional care in every species of Quadrupedes, of bringing forth at the fittest seasons. 3. Of, relating to, or done with a proviso; conditional. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adjective] conditionalc1380 conditionate1533 conditionated1581 otherwise1602 provisory1611 cautionated1623 provisionala1626 provisive1650 conditioneda1656 subject1662 limitative1682 springing1685 eventual1692 contingent1710 stipulated1766 provisionary1775 conditional1864 mitigated1884 a1626 F. Bacon Charge Against William Talbot in Resuscitatio (1657) 58 A Mans Allegeance, must be Independant, not provisionall, and conditionall. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Provisional,..done by way of Proviso. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Provisional..belonging to a Proviso. 1758 T. Brecknock Plan Est. Gen. Peace of Europe 12 The French King farther declares, that it is not his Meaning or Intent to defeat or elude this provisional Article. 1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 3 There is enough in it to afford an ample justification to the provisional acceptance your Lordship has been pleased to give to it. 1869 T. Boese Public Educ. N.Y. 107 The Society..made earnest efforts to have this provisional clause stricken out. 1911 Times 25 Mar. 20/1 A provisional clause has been drafted for insertion in marine policies insuring goods to River Plate ports. 1985 Church Times 11 Jan. 12/5 Both in the Book of Common Prayer and in the Alternative Service Book the promises made by the candidates..are properly provisional, with ‘the Lord being my helper’ or some such proviso attached. †4. Christian Church. = provisionary adj. 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > advowson > [adjective] > that grants appointment to non-vacant benefice provisory1601 provisional1700 provisionary1736 1700 F. Atterbury Rights Eng. Convocation iii. 80 Henry the VIIIth..involved them All in a Premunire for submitting to Wolsey's Legatine Character, unauthorised by the Crown; not for Procuring, or making Use of Provisional Bulls..Nor yet merely for Appearing and Making Suit in his Courts. 1739 W. Harris tr. J. Ware Wks. conc. Ireland I. 150 William Shirwood succeeded by a Provisional Bull from Pope Pius the IId, and was consecrated in 1460. 1761 T. Smollett et al. tr. Voltaire Wks. I. viii. 93 Henry..got himself declared supreme head of the church of England by his clergy, and the parliament afterwards confirmed this title, and abolished the pope's authority throughout the kingdom, together with his annates, Peter's pence, and provisional grants. †5. Of or relating to provisions or supplies. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [adjective] provisionary1612 annonary1651 provisional1812 1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 33 228 Both words [plenty and abundance]..are metaphorically applied to the provisional state of the country, to its eatable stock. 1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 509 From Covent garden..we must take a peep at the other points of provisional concentration about town. B. n. †1. A person for whom (a particular sort of) provision is made. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 316 A Popish Pervert and a Protestant Convert are indeed two different Provisionals. 2. Chiefly in plural. a. A person whose employment or tenure of office is temporary; a member of a provisional government, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > governor of province, dependency, or colony > [noun] > provisional governor provisional1845 1845 Times 25 Nov. 7/4 The provisionals had nothing to do with the matter. 1848 A. H. Clough Let. 26 Feb. in T. Arnold N.Z. Lett. (1966) 78 Will the army and Nationals rally around this government, or allow the people to set up their Provisionals. Inasmuch as the Provisionals are all in the Ministry, I suppose they may please themselves. 1866 T. P. Kettell Hist. Great Rebellion ix. 118 The provisionals were enlisted for the space of twelve months, to go wherever ordered. 1937 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 189 35/2 Giving appointing officers a free hand in naming provisionals who..may later be covered in as permanent appointments. 1998 Admin. Sci. Q. 43 943 Overlaid on this threefold occupational distinction are differences between career civil service employees and ‘provisionals’. b. A member of the Provisional I.R.A. (see Provisional I.R.A. n. at Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > member of specific paramilitary group > [noun] Sanfedist1842 squadrist1938 Sternist1944 werewolf1945 provisional1970 Provo1971 Razakar1971 Schutzbündler1974 paramilitary1975 Koevoet1983 1970 Times 13 Oct. 2/2 A statement attributed to the I.R.A. publicity bureau..claimed that the split in the movement between the traditional..faction and the ‘provisionals’ had been healed. 1974 Listener 14 Mar. 323/1 The Provisionals' traditional method of discipline: putting a gun barrel behind a man's knee and blowing off his knee cap. 1995 K. Toolis Rebel Hearts (1996) ii. 51 The British Army, reacting to an increased threat from the Provisionals, decided to upgrade its fortification along the border with the Irish Republic. 3. Something that is provisional, esp. a provisional stamp. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp > types of black1863 penny black1863 local1865 error1866 toadskin1867 fiscal1869 imperforate1874 tête-bêche1874 halfpenny1881 provisional1885 British colonial1902 precancel1903 definitive1929 airmail1930 pictorial1934 perfin1945 1885 E. B. Evans Philatelic Handbk. 93 Ecquador..Provisionals. Black surcharge; value in words in two lines. 1929 K. B. Stiles Stamps i. 7 A striking illustration of definitives and provisionals is to be found in the postal history of Portugal. 1975 B. Gunston Philatelist's Compan. 246 Provisionals may be crude local productions, reprinted issues from another country, or an issue overprinted by a successful revolutionary administration. 1992 Independent 16 Jan. 14/5 Actually I never even got a provisional. I just learnt by getting into a car and seeing what happened. Compounds provisional callus n. [after French cal provisoire (1822 or earlier)] Medicine the ring of callus originally formed at the site of a bone fracture. ΚΠ 1829 R. D. Grainger Elem. Gen. Anat. 417 Baron Dupuytren concludes from his investigations that there are two distinct processes in the union of fracture, or rather that a double callus is formed. The first, which he calls provisional callus, ‘cal provisoire’ is formed by a deposition either in the periosteum alone, or in that membrane and in the cellular, and even in the muscular tissues. 1830 Lancet 22 May 263/2 The temporary union, the provisional callus, which holds the ends of the bone together, is not fully ossified before the fortieth, fiftieth, or sixtieth day. 1856 R. Druitt Surgeon's Vade Mecum (ed. 7) 217 The formation of what is called a provisional callus, that is to say, a ferrule of new bone encircling both fragments. 1908 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 199 259 When a fracture takes place without rupture of the periosteum, the union of bone occurs so perfectly that it is difficult after a time to discern the seat of fracture, and at no time is there much if any provisional callus. 1996 Biomaterials 17 1494/2 The provisional callus develops from the very soft and easily disrupted haematoma, and as the definitive callus is formed, it becomes increasingly more mineralized and gains in strength. provisional driving licence n. a probationary licence issued to a learner driver and superseded by a full licence on passing a driving test. ΚΠ 1935 Times 16 Oct. 4/4 Fined 20s. at Cambridge Police Court yesterday for driving a motor-car without supervision while holding a provisional driving licence, and 5s. for not signing the licence. 1974 Guardian 22 Mar. 8/7 The Environment Department has turned down a plea for stricter eyesight tests for people applying for their first provisional driving licence. 1995 J. Miller & M. Stacey Driving Instructor's Handbk. (ed. 8) i. 24 Getting to know the students before they take to the roads should result in them thinking about you first when they apply for their provisional driving licence and are looking for an instructor. provisional government n. (also with capital initials) an interim or temporary government, esp. one set up to govern until constitutional self-government or democracy can be established or restored; (also) government of this nature. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > [noun] > other types of government regency1643 myriarchy1650 responsible government1782 charter-government1796 co-government1834 minority government1859 internationalism1879 minority rule1886 Labour government1892 provisional government1916 paepae1937 1711 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Europe 1711 515 He recommended also to the Empress his Mother, the provisional Government of his faithful Subjects. 1803 M. Cutler Let. 30 Nov. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 148 Look at the power given to the President by the provisional government of Louisiana. 1916 W. B. Wells & ‘N. Marlowe’ Hist. Irish Rebellion of 1916 ix. 47 At the Post Office was established the Headquarters of the ‘Provisional Government of the Irish Republic’. 2002 N.Y. Times 23 June iv. 2/4 The obvious ratcheting down of the coalition's military presence was encouraged by the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the president of the provisional government. Provisional I.R.A. n. an Irish Republican paramilitary organization, formed in December 1969 and historically advocating the use of violence to pursue its political aims. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > paramilitary groups spec. > [noun] U.V.F.1913 squadra1922 Sturmabteilung1923 steel helmet1925 Schutzbund1927 new guard1932 Silver Shirts1934 Stern gang1944 Umkhonto we Sizwe1961 nahal1963 MK1964 Provisional I.R.A.1970 Black September1971 Red Brigade1971 Black Septembrist1972 U.D.A.1972 Symbionese Liberation Army1973 U.F.F.1973 Amal1976 death squad1976 INLA1979 1970 Times 7 Apr. 10/3 Our four informants denied that the provisional I.R.A. in Belfast had been responsible for the agitation that led to the rioting in Ballymurphy last week. 1986 New Statesman 10 Oct. 8/2 Eight people had been killed by loyalists, one by the RUC, one by the army, and 33 by the Provisional IRA and INLA. 2000 S. McKay Northern Protestants 54 The Provos are the Provisional IRA, which broke away from the Official IRA in 1969 to become the dominant republican body, with Sinn Féin as its political wing. provisional licence n. (a) a temporary licence issued for a limited period; (b) = provisional driving licence n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving or operating a motor vehicle > driving licence provisional licence1803 international driving permit1914 1803 Times 24 Oct. 1/3 We do further authorize and require the said Lord Mayor..to grant under his hand and seal to the Alien delivering such account, a provisional licence to reside within Great Britain. 1889 Times 4 Oct. 6/3 A new licence altogether would be required for the new building, and a provisional licence was applied for, which would not come into operation until the building was completed. 1973 Salisbury (Maryland) Daily Times 27 Apr. 9/3 Issuance of a provisional license does not alter the requirement for annual license renewal. 1990 D. Bolger Journey Home (1991) ii. 78 The evening, a week later, when I caught him trying to tear a piece off my provisional licence when he was stuck for roach paper. provisional order n. Law (in Britain) an order made by a Minister of the Crown under the authority of a statute, but requiring confirmation in an Act of Parliament before it takes legal effect. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > provisional order provisional order1848 1848 Act 11 & 12 Victoria c. 63 s. x They shall make a Provisional Order under their Hands and Seal of Office. 1870 Act 33 & 34 Victoria c. 1 §2 Any Select Committee of the House of Commons to which any Bill for confirming Provisional Orders has been referred in relation to any Provisional Order therein contained may examine witnesses upon oath. 1963 J. F. Garner Admin. Law iii. 42 Provisional orders are made by a Minister of the Crown under the authority of a statute, and they are therefore sometimes described as a form of delegated or subordinate legislation, but they have no legal force until they have been included (usually by way of reference in a schedule) in a Provisional Orders Confirmation Act. 1971 S. A. de Smith Constit. & Admin. Law xv. 342 Provisional orders, which do not have legal effect till confirmed by Act of Parliament and are therefore not a form of delegated legislation at all. 2005 Times (Nexis) 14 Oct. 84 Bills for confirming a provisional order which did not fall within the expression ‘public Bill’ by virtue of section 5 of the 1911 Act. Derivatives provisioˈnality n. provisionalness. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > quality of being temporary or provisional temporariness1695 temporaneousness1727 provisionality1821 provisionalness1874 the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > terms of agreement > a condition or stipulation > quality of being conditional provisionality1821 provisionalness1874 1821 Examiner 821/2 Open your eyes..and you will see that provisionality itself is infused into all the branches of your system. 1940 Amer. Anthropologist 42 672 Whenever arguments or conclusions are based on scant data, their provisionality is indicated. 2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Nov. 51/1 His strength is..in conjuring up a constant state of provisionality (one moment contradicts the last as readily as the main character does). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1597
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