temporaneous

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin temporāneus (“timely”), derived from Latin tempor- (“time”).

Adjective

temporaneous (comparative more temporaneous, superlative most temporaneous)

1. (obsolete) temporary
   • 1681, Henry Hallywell, Melampronoea:

     Those things may cause a temporaneous disunion.

Related terms

• contemporaneous

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “temporaneous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)