Word Meanings - PROVISIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Provisional. Burke.

PROVISIONAL
Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
PROVISIONALLY
By way of provision for the time being; temporarily. Locke.
BURKE
1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary