adv. [f. TEMPORARY a. + -LY2.] In a temporary manner.
1. For a time (only); during a limited time.
c. 1694. in Somers, Tracts (1748), I. 193. Derogatory to the King’s Prerogative, relative to Parliaments, and temporarily changing the very Constitution thereof.
1803. Godwin, Life Chaucer, III. 189 (Jod.). An oligarchical council temporarily administering the affairs of the nation.
1873. Act 36 & 37 Vict., c. 88 § 7. The vacancy shall be temporarily filled.
2. In relation to time, temporally. rare.
1877. E. Caird, Philos. Kant, II. xi. 447. All spatially or temporarily determined phenomena.
