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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tran·si·to·ry a.  Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.
    Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble.   --Bk. of Com. Prayer.
    It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing.   --South.
 Transitory action Law, an action which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, and the like; -- opposed to local action.
 Syn: -- transient; short-lived; brief. See Transient.
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