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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

... for your peers spiritual. He could get on well enough with a peer temporal, particularly if that proud aristocrat happened to be in want of a horse; but a ...

— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley

... hart should be staied from willing contribution to the performance of this so excellent a discouery, the Lords and subiectes spirituall for the sole publication of Gods glorious gospell. And the Lords and subiectes temporal for the renowne of their prince and glory of their nation should be thervnto most vehemently effected. Which when it shall so please God in the mightines of his mercy, I beseech ...

— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt

... banker, seating himself, after a deliberate survey of the fair countenance that blushed beneath his gaze, "Mrs. Leslie and myself have been conferring upon your temporal welfare. You have been ...

— Ernest Maltravers, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... Ramah, all to the north of Nain, had yet to be touched at in their turn. Each successive station has its own distinctive features and so presents fresh interest to the visitor. Nain, the oldest of all, is rich in associations with the past as well as very interesting in the life, spiritual and temporal, of the mission-house and the Eskimo dwellings, which constitute this little Christian village of three ...

— With the Harmony to Labrador - Notes Of A Visit To The Moravian Mission Stations On The North-East - Coast Of Labrador • Benjamin La Trobe

... sayst full bitterly, He misdeparteth* riches temporal; *allots amiss Thy neighebour thou witest* sinfully, *blamest And sayst, thou hast too little, and he hath all: "Parfay (sayst thou) sometime he reckon shall, When that his tail shall *brennen in the glede*, *burn in the fire* For he not help'd the ...

— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer

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