temporal.
Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
Meaning & usage
Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
temporal power, temporal courts
The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled
Relating to time: Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
Relating to time: Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal. Lasting for a short time only.
Relating to time: Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
Relating to time: Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
Relating to time: Relating to or denoting time or tense.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English temporal, temporel (“transitory, worldly, material, of secular society”), from Old French temporel or Latin temporālis (“of time (in grammar), temporary, relating to time as opposed to eternity”), from tempus (“time, period, opportunity”) + -ālis.
Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English temporal, temporel (“transitory, worldly, material, of secular society”), from Old French temporel or Latin temporālis (“of time (in grammar), temporary, relating to time as opposed to eternity”), from tempus (“time, period, opportunity”) + -ālis.
Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English, from Middle French timporal, temporal, from Late Latin temporālis, from tempora (“the temples of the head”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of temporalis.
Ellipsis of temporal bone.
Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English, from Middle French timporal, temporal, from Late Latin temporālis, from tempora (“the temples of the head”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of temporalis.
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