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Temporal   /tˈɛmpərəl/   Listen
adjective
Temporal  adj.  (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
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.


Temporal  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal. "The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal." "Is this an hour for temporal affairs?"
2.
Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.
Lords temporal. See under Lord, n.
Temporal augment. See the Note under Augment, n.
Synonyms: Transient; fleeting; transitory.


noun
Temporal  n.  Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; used chiefly in the plural. "He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals."





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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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