Temporal

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Temporal \Tem"po*ral\, n.
     Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly
     in the plural. --Dryden.
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           He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to


           the emperor or temporals.                --Lowell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Temporal \Tem"po*ral\, a. [L. temporalis, fr. tempora the
     temples: cf. F. temporal. See {Temple} a part of the head.]
     (Anat.)
     Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal
     bone; a temporal artery.
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     {Temporal bone}, a very complex bone situated in the side of
        the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of
        hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal portion
        above the ear, corresponding to the squamosal and zygoma
        of the lower vertebrates, and a thickened basal petrosal
        and mastoid portion, corresponding to the periotic and
        tympanic bones of the lower vertebrates.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Temporal \Tem"po*ral\, a. [L. temporalis, fr. tempus, temporis,
     time, portion of time, the fitting or appointed time: cf. F.
     temporel. Cf. {Contemporaneous}, {Extempore}, {Temper}, v.
     t., {Tempest}, {Temple} a part of the head, {Tense}, n.,
     {Thing}.]
     1. Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or
        this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or
        eternal.
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              The things which are seen are temporal, but the
              things which are not seen are eternal. --2 Cor. iv.
                                                    18.
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              Is this an hour for temporal affairs? --Shak.
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     2. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical;
        as, temporal power; temporal courts.
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     {Lords temporal}. See under {Lord}, n.
  
     {Temporal augment}. See the Note under {Augment}, n.
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     Syn: Transient; fleeting; transitory.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  temporal
       adj 1: not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"-
              F.D.Roosevelt
       2: of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing";
          "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries";
          "music is a temporal art"
       3: of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind
          the orbit); "temporal bone"
       4: of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church"
       5: concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords
          temporal and spiritual" [syn: {worldly}]
       6: of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal
          existence"
       n : the semantic role of the noun phrase that designating the
           time of the state or action denoted by the verb [syn: {temporal
           role}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "temporal":
     Philistine, annalistic, banausic, bodily, brittle, calendarial,
     calendric, capricious, carnal, carnal-minded, changeable,
     chronogrammatic, chronographic, chronologic, chronological,
     chronoscopic, civil, congregational, continuous, corporal,
     corporeal, corruptible, dated, deciduous, diaristic, durational,
     durative, dying, earthly, earthy, ephemeral, evanescent, fading,
     fickle, fleeting, fleshly, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile,
     frail, fugacious, fugitive, horologic, hylic, impermanent,
     impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, intercalary,
     intercalated, laic, laical, lasting, lay, material, materialistic,
     materiate, metronomic, momentary, mortal, mundane, mutable,
     nonclerical, nondurable, nonecclesiastical, nonministerial,
     nonordained, nonpastoral, nonpermanent, nonreligious, nonsacred,
     nonspiritual, passing, perishable, physical, popular, profane,
     reprobate, secular, secularist, secularistic, sensual, short-lived,
     somatic, substantial, temporary, terrene, terrestrial, timekeeping,
     transient, transitive, transitory, unblessed, undurable,
     unenduring, unhallowed, unholy, unregenerate, unsacred,
     unsanctified, unspiritual, unstable, volatile, worldly