a. Now rare or Obs. [f. L. temporāne-us timely, opportune (f. tempus, tempor- time) + -OUS.]
† 1. Lasting only for a time, temporary. Obs.
1656. [see 2].
1681. Hallywell, Melampr., 68 (T.). Those things may cause a temporaneous disunion.
1782. A. Monro, Compar. Anat., 120. The temporaneous grinders are placed … upon the internal set.
1806. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., IV. 244. This book is so driftless, so useless, so temporaneous.
1818. [implied in temporaneously, -ness: see below].
2. Pertaining or relating to time, temporal.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Temporaneous, done suddenly, at a certaine time, pertaining to time; variable for the time.
1694. Phil. Trans., XVIII. 67. A Temporaneous progressive motion of the parts of the Air at the rate of 276 Paces in a second Minute of time.
1878. F. Ferguson, Pop. Life Christ, x. 40. He uses only the connective particle ‘and’ and not the temporaneous ‘then.’
Hence Temporaneously adv., for the time; Temporaneousness, temporary character.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Temporaneousness.
1818. G. S. Faber, Horæ Mosaicæ, I. 328. His title to the perpetually entailed, though temporaneously alienated, inheritance of his forefathers. Ibid., II. 208. The testimony which it bears respecting its own temporaneousness.
