temporaneous

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin temporaneus (“happening at the right time”), from tempus, temporis (“time”).

Adjective

temporaneous (comparative more temporaneous, superlative most temporaneous)

1. (obsolete) temporary
   • (Can we date this quote by Hallywell and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)