temporal

[Tem·po*ral]

Our time on earth is limited, or temporal.

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Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

Noun
the semantic role of the noun phrase that designating the time of the state or action denoted by the verb

Adjective S.
of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"

Adjective S.
not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt

Adjective S.
concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"

Adjective S.
of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church"

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Adjective
of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone"

Adjective
of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art"


a.
Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

n.
Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.

n.
Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.

n.
Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.


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. 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

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.
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. Syn. -- Transient; fleeting; transitory.

Temporal

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

Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.

Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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Usage Examples

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

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Other Usage Examples

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

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