adv. [f. TRANSITORY + -LY2.] In a transitory manner; in passing through; temporarily, briefly, transiently.
1611. Cotgr., Casuellement,… vncertainly, transitorily.
1612. Donne, Lett. (1651), 92. I make account to be in London, transitorily, about the end of August.
1762. Kames, Elem. Crit., III. xix. 24. The mind is transitorily amused with the new object.
1847. Illustr. Lond. News, 10 July, 29/1. A flash of lightning now and then illuminated the entire panorama, but too transitorily to catch any of its features.
1899. Cagney, trans. Jaksch’s Clin. Diagn., vii. (ed. 4), 394. In acute lead-poisoning … large quantities of albumen are often transitorily present in the urine.
