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Transitori(o)us, adj. Also: transetorius, -etoreous, transsitorious. [e.m.E. transitorious (1492), transetorious (1502), late L. transitōrius.] = Transitor(i)e adj. a1568 Bann. MS 82b/42.
Tyme is transetorius and also irrevocable 1375 Barb. Pref. (1571).
In thir schort and transitorious dayis 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. in Cath. Tr. (STS) 73/8.
Transitorius 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 116.
Vardlie respect a commoditie quhilk is bot transitorius and of ane moment 1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. 156.
There can be na solid settling upon the thing that is transitorious 1609 Edinb. Test. XLVI 11a.
Howsone God … will call me furtht of this transitorious lyf 1604-9 Grahame Anat. Hum. 57b.
Transetoreous a1599 Rollock Wks. II 4.
Creatures … which in themselves are but transitorious shadows 1621 Brechin Test. IV 3a.
This miserable & transsitorious lyiff
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