in transitu

American  

[in trahn-si-too, in tran-si-too, -tyoo] / ɪn ˈtrɑn sɪˌtu, ɪn ˈtræn sɪˌtu, -ˌtyu /

adverb

Latin.

1. in transit; on the way.

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Example Sentences

June 6th.—We have hard work at the War Department, and some confusion owing to the loss of a box of papers in transitu from Montgomery.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

When the subject was requested to trace the image in transitu, this could usually be accomplished, but the time was much longer.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

Some were taken by Streatfeild, his literary executor, and some few were lost in transitu; the remainder are here.

From The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College Cambridge by Bartholomew, A. T.

Moreover, all prisoners in transitu for any point of exchange, falling into their hands, will be held as paroled, and exchanged.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

Now, in this state it perfectly resembles the brain of an adult fish, thus assuming in transitu the form that in the fish is permanent. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert