Transitory
Transitory , adjective
[Latin transitorius: compare French transitoire. See Transient.]
Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.
Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble.
It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then... vanishes into nothing.
Collocations (1)
Transitory action (Law) , an action which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, and the like; -- opposed to local action. — Blackstone. Bouvier