TEMPORARY STATE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Temporary state

... resigned. In October 1814, he was elected from Cuyahoga county a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, being barely old enough under the Constitution when the Legislature met to take his seat in that body and being the youngest member. Chillicothe was then the temporary State capital. ...

— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin

... upon it as a second sign of the unusualness that marks the whole tragedy. And why move that enormous stone, to finish off the victim, when a mere pebble would have done the work? Why again was the murderer not killed, or at least reduced to a temporary state of helplessness, in the terrible somersault turned by the car? How did he disappear? And why, having disappeared, did he return to the scene of the accident? Why did he throw his fur coat there; then, on another day, his cap; then, ...

— The Confessions of Arsene Lupin • Maurice Leblanc