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Temporal
| temporal arrangement
| temporal arteritis
| temporal artery
| temporal bone
| temporal canthus
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Temporal has 1 sense
- temporal(n = noun.communication) temporal role - the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb; Array is a kind of participant role, semantic role
Adjective Temporal has 5 senses
- temporal(s = adj.all) Array - not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"
- temporal(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art"
- temporal(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone"
- temporal(a = adj.all) secular, worldly - characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"
- temporal(s = adj.all) Array - of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"
CIDE DICTIONARY
Temporal, a. [L. temporalis, fr. tempora the temples: cf. F. temporal. See Temple a part of the head.].
Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery. [1913 Webster]
Temporal, 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.].
- Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal. [1913 Webster]"The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal." [1913 Webster]"Is this an hour for temporal affairs?" [1913 Webster]
- Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Transient; fleeting; transitory.
Temporal, n.
Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
"He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Temporal, adj.
1 of worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; of this life; secular.
2 of or relating to time.
3 Gram. relating to or denoting time or tense (temporal conjunction).
4 of the temples of the head (temporal artery; temporal bone).
1 of worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; of this life; secular.
2 of or relating to time.
3 Gram. relating to or denoting time or tense (temporal conjunction).
4 of the temples of the head (temporal artery; temporal bone).
Idiom
temporal power the power of an ecclesiastic, esp. the Pope, in temporal matters.
Derivative
temporally adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF temporel or f. L temporalis f. tempus -oris time
THESAURUS
Temporal
Philistine, annalistic, banausic, bodily, brittle, calendarial, calendric, capricious, carnal, carnal-minded, changeable, chronogrammatic, chronographic, chronologic, chronological, chronoscopic, civil, congregational, continuous, corporal, corporeal, corruptible, dated, deciduous, diaristic, durational, durative, dying, earthly, earthy, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, fleshly, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, horologic, hylic, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, intercalary, intercalated, laic, laical, lasting, lay, material, materialistic, materiate, metronomic, momentary, mortal, mundane, mutable, nonclerical, nondurable, nonecclesiastical, nonministerial, nonordained, nonpastoral, nonpermanent, nonreligious, nonsacred, nonspiritual, passing, perishable, physical, popular, profane, reprobate, secular, secularist, secularistic, sensual, short-lived, somatic, substantial, temporary, terrene, terrestrial, timekeeping, transient, transitive, transitory, unblessed, undurable, unenduring, unhallowed, unholy, unregenerate, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual, unstable, volatile, worldlyROGET THESAURUS
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Transientness
N transience, transientness, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly, spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement, interregnum, velocity, suddenness, changeableness, transient, transient boarder, transient guest, transient, transitory, transitive, passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, flying, fugacious, fugitive, shifting, slippery, spasmodic, instantaneous, momentaneous, temporal, temporary, provisional, provisory, deciduous, perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden, momentary, temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time, awhile, en passant, in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip, one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu! fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!, dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion.Laity
N laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people, society, temporality, secularization, layman, civilian, parishioner, catechumen, secularist, secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.
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