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By way of provision for the time being; temporarily. Locke.

Provisional. Burke.

The act of revising; reëxamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.

Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.

A part of a thing made by subdividing. In the decimal table, the subdivision of the cubit, as span, palm, and digit, are deduced from the shorter cubit. Arbuthnot.

The act of overseeing; inspection; superintendence; oversight.

Supervision. [Obs.]

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.

That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they have no evident head. Formerly the group included the Tunicata, Brachiopoda, and sometimes the Bryozoa. See Mollusca.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Provisions. Same as Cates. [Obs.] Spenser.

A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.

A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.

One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

in aid; assistance. It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke.

Aërial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary. [Poetic] M. Arnold.

ertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to am equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.