Meanings
adverbprovisorily (comparative more provisorily, superlative most provisorily)
comparative more provisorily · superlative most provisorily
- In a provisory manner; conditionally
to admit a doctrine provisorily
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The judgment by which the phænomenon is thus provisorily referred , is called an hypothesis ,a supposition
a. 1857, 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, published 1859–1860, →OCLC
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