momentany

English

Etymology

From Middle French momentané, from Late Latin momentaneus.

Adjective

momentany (comparative more momentany, superlative most momentany)

1. (obsolete) Momentary, transient. [15th–18th c.]
   • 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:

     [T]hynges sensibly perceiued: as of a momentanye sounde iterated […].

   • 1620, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, published 2001, page 47:

     Some were brawling, some fighting, riding, running, solicite ambientes, callide litiganes, for toys and trifles, and such momentany things […]

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
     Making it momentary as a sound,