provisionaryadj.

1612 S. Daniel First Pt. Hist. Eng. ii. 137 For his prouisionary reuenues..the kings Tenants..paid no money at all, but onely Victuals, Wheate, Beifes, Muttons [etc.].

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 35 For his provisionary Revenues, the Kings Tenants who held Lands of the Crowne, payd him no money at all, but onely Corne and other victuals.

1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon 395 The least violence to any Higler, Sutler, or other Provisionary Person, being a crime so capital, as never escap'd unpunish'd.

1800 tr. Hist. Campaign 1799 in Italy 49 The communications and provisionary supplies of the French suffered.

1812 J. McNab Jrnl. in Beaver (1993) Summer 7/1 That he would afford us a Guide to Temescamaing and assist us with provisionary supplies.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 86 His Lordship..appointed Sir Iohn Barkeley to supplie his place of Prouisionarie Gouernour of the Prouince of Connaght.

1661 W. Johnson Novelty Represt 227 Canons..are to be supposed as perpetual to the whole Church, till..some manifest action given in the institution of them, that they are only provisionary for a time.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xv. 456 A provisionary scheme intended to last only till the coming of the Messiah.

1794 R. Heron Inform. Powers at War 30 A provisionary government was appointed.

1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. iii. 66 In practical life probable evidence only raises a provisionary belief.

1893 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 31 221 In the circumspection of the species I have nearly completely followed Boulenger. This, however, is only provisionary.

1978 L. Deuel Mem. Heinrich Schliemann 62 Provisionary sails were rigged.

2002 Age (Nexis) 11 Feb. c3 CMC has lodged a provisionary patent for the engine.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 148 To cast the government of the persons of their Wards out of the view of the Lords provisionary care.

1647 H. P. Cressy Exomologesis vii. 22 To what Churches Communion I should adjoyne my selfe upon supposition that the English Church should come to sayle. I thought my self the rather obliged to pursue such a provisionary enquiry.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. iv. 89 [Nature's] provisionary Care and Concern for the whole Animal.

1784 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1876) xii. 47 The provisionary methods Demosthenes and Cicero employed to assist their invention.

1791 J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. at Caution Prudence, foresight, wariness; provisionary precept; warning.

1736 F. Drake Eboracum ii. i. 436 The Archbishop of York..was by the pope's provisionary bulls translated to Canterbury.

1791 J. Collinson Hist. & Antiq. Somerset I. 55 Robert de Sutton..continued in his priorship till June the following year, when he was removed by the authority of the Pope's provisionary bull.

1856 H. Conant Eng. Bible iii. 41 The sale of these provisionary grants was a source of large income to the Papal Court.

1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 6 The preamble of this law..has the lie direct given to it by the provisionary part of the Act.

1796 R. Bage Hermsprong III. iv. 40 The Quarto et ultimo was the crown and perfection of provisionary wisdom. By a clause in the annuity agreement, he agreed to forfeit one half of it, if ever he drew out the last of the 15000l. deposited for his gaming fund.