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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Transitor(i)e, adj. Also: -tor(e)y, transytorie, -atory, -etory, transitoure, transitoir. [ME and e.m.E. transitorie (Chaucer), transitoire (Caxton), transitory (1592), OF transitoire, late L. transitōrius.] Passing, fleeting, transient.(a) a1400 Leg. S. ii 219.
Eftire this lyfe transitore Euire-lestand lyfe is me before c1450 Cr. Deyng (STS) 170.
Transytorie c1460 Wisd. Sol. (STS) 493.
Transitoure 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 173.
[Fortune's] transitorie plesance … Now to, now fra, [etc.] c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 178/6.
This fals warld is bot transitory 1533 Boece 605b.
Lik as all mortall caissis ar caduc and transitorie a1550 Lang Rosair 378.
Transatory c1552 Lynd. Mon. 6268.
My Sone, now mark weil, … Of this fals warld the trublus transitory 1554 Misc. Bann. C. III 65.
Kingis, princis, and of otheris preclare nobles, be the quhilkis this warld transitore is rewlit 1609 Garden Garden 44.
Those toyes … That temp'rall are, ȝea transitore 1630-1651 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 382.
Duke of Lennox & Richmond departed this transitorie lyff 1638 Rec. Kirk Scotl. 57.
Transitorey 1645 Fugitive Poetry II xxi 3/44.
Transetory(b) 1456 Hay II 95/19.
Sett nocht thy hert on na thing that is corruptible na covate nocht thingis transitoiris that has na durabilitee 1567 G. Ball. 83.
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