pertransient

I will not stick summarily to deliuer somewhat more concerning lines Armoriall: which, first, are either Entire, and Pertransient, or Entire and Pertingent, or parts of them.

1610, Edmund Bolton, The elements of armories, London, pages 88–89

Thus is man fated to learn effectually from experience; the voice of the sage is, like all sublunary things, pertransient.

1843, John S. Murphy, The Somerby Family: A Total Abstinence Tale, Boston: Theodore Abbot, page 90

And to move is active as to feel is passive, wherefore by greater heat; whether the faculty [of sensation combines] with the essence, viz., of the pertransient spirit [translating spiritus pertranseuntis], [according to] Galen when [he says the faculty is in the brain] without the essence.

1961, C. D. O'Malley, F. N. L. Poynter, K. F. Russell (trans.), Lectures on the whole of anatomy: an annotated translation of Prelectiones anatomiae universalis, Univ. of California Press, [Original in Latin by William Harvey, 1616], page 224