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Temporal

adjective

Not eternal.

Of or relating to or limited by time. "Temporal dimensions" , "Temporal and spacial boundaries" , "Music is a temporal art"

Of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit).

Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world. Synonyms: secular, worldly. "Temporal possessions of the church"

Of this earth or world. "Our temporal existence"

noun

The semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb. Synonym: temporal role.

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"Temporal" Quotes from Famous Books

... to be granted a glimpse of the guiding Hand that steers men's destinies; then, as comprehension is about to dawn, we lose again our temporal lucidity of vision. ...

— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer

... with the question of the temporal power, and this he thought he might treat freely. Naturally, he was not ignorant of the fact that the Pope in his quarrel with Italy upheld the rights of the Church over Rome as stubbornly as his predecessor; ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... little is as clearly an indication of mental weakness as to believe too much. God suddenly raised up a man in our midst who was as strong in faith as he was indifferent to the material things of this world. It was indeed his faith in things eternal and unseen that made him so indifferent to things temporal. Gordon might have lived and died amongst us without being known beyond a limited circle, but that his Master placed him on high so that men should be compelled to hear about his life. Sir William Butler in his interesting book, ...

— General Gordon - A Christian Hero • Seton Churchill

... it should even lose Italy? France, Spain, Sardinia, the Italian Petty Principalities and Anarchies: suppose they tug and tussle, and collapse there as they can? But let France try to look across the Rhine again; and to threaten Teutschland, England, and the Cause of Human Liberty temporal or spiritual!" ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--The Ten Years of Peace.--1746-1756. • Thomas Carlyle

... interorbital region moderately channeled, narrowly constricted near middle of frontal (instead of anteriorly); supraorbital ridges concave laterally, diverging more strongly posterior to interorbital constriction (frontal 8.7 to 9.5 mm. wide at posterior ends of supraorbital ridges); temporal ridges widely flaring on parietals; occipital ridges prominent; interparietal broadly rectangular between temporal ridges, usually short in median line of skull, posterior margin straight or with slight median posterior angle; incisive foramina tapered toward both ends, ...

— A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) from Colorado • Robert B. Finley

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