pertransient

Definitions

Passing through; transient.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“I will not stick⟳ summarily to deliuer somewhat more concerning lines Armoriall: which, first, are either Entire, and Pertransient, or Entire and Pertingent, or parts of them.”

“Interſecants, in Heraldry, are pertranſient Lines which croſs one another.”

“Thus is man fated to learn⟳ effectually from experience⟳; the voice of the sage is, like⟳ all sublunary things, pertransient.”

“And to move⟳ is active as to feel⟳ is passive, wherefore by greater heat; whether the faculty [of sensation combines] with the essence, viz., of the pertransient spirit [translating spiritus pertranseuntis], [according to] Galen when [he says the faculty is in the brain] without the essence.”

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