Temporal
[tempәrәl]
Definition
(adj.) of this earth or world; 'temporal joys'; 'our temporal existence' .
(adj.) not eternal; 'temporal matters of but fleeting moment'- F.D.Roosevelt .
(adj.) of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); 'temporal bone' .
(adj.) of or relating to or limited by time; 'temporal processing'; 'temporal dimensions'; 'temporal and spacial boundaries'; 'music is a temporal art' .
Typist: Marion--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Worldly, terrestrial, mundane, secular, of this world, of this life, not spiritual, not ecclesiastical.[2]. Transient, fleeting, TEMPORARY.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Secular, worldly, civil, political, transient, fleeting, laical, terrestrial,sublunary, mundane
ANT:Religious, spiritual, ecclesiastical, eternal, sacerdotal
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Definition
adj. pertaining to time esp. to this life or world—opposed to eternal: worldly secular or civil—opposed to sacred or ecclesiastical.—n. Temporal′ity what pertains to temporal welfare: (pl.) secular possessions revenues of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands tithes and the like.—adv. Tem′porally.—n. Tem′poralness.—adv. Tem′porarily.—n. Tem′porariness.—adjs. Tem′porary Temporā′neous for a time only: transient.—n. Temporisā′tion.—v.i. Tem′porise to comply with the time or occasion: to yield to circumstances.—ns. Tem′poriser; Tem′porising.—adv. Tem′porisingly.
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Examples
- In education, the distance covered may be looked at as temporal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Focusing and ordering are thus the two aspects of direction, one spatial, the other temporal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And throughout the whole period there is always a struggle going on for the control of the corpse between the spiritual and various temporal powers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was not temporal, her hatred, she did not hate him for this or for that; she did not want to do anything to him, to have any connection with him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Obviously, however, this surging up of personal factors into conscious recognition is a part of the whole activity in its temporal development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But the temporal power of the clergy, the absolute command which they had once had over the great body of the people was very much decayed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Sufferingbrewed in temporal or calculable measure, and mixed for mortal lipstastes not as this suffering tasted. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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