provisorily

English

Etymology

From provisory +‎ -ly.

Adverb

provisorily (comparative more provisorily, superlative most provisorily)

1. In a provisory manner; conditionally

   to admit a doctrine provisorily

   • 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (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

References

• “provisorily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.