temporal
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/
From Middle English temporal, temporel, from Old French temporel or Latin temporālis, from tempus + -ālis.
Adjectivetemporal (not comparable)
- (relational) Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
- temporal power, temporal courts
- The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled
- Synonyms: secular, lay, civil
- Antonyms: spiritual, ecclesiastical
- (relational) Relating to time:
- French: temporel
- German: diesseitig, weltlich
- Portuguese: temporal
- Russian: све́тский
- French: temporel
- German: zeitlich, (in grammar also) temporal
- Italian: temporale
- Portuguese: temporal
- Russian: временно́й
- Spanish: temporal
- French: temporaire
- German: zeitweilig, vorübergehend, temporär
- Italian: temporale
- Portuguese: temporário
- Russian: вре́менный
- French: temporaire
- German: temporär
- Italian: temporale
- Portuguese: temporário
- Russian: преходя́щий
temporal (plural temporals)
- (chiefly, in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
- 1684, John Dryden, The History of the League, translation of Histoire de la Ligue by Louis Maimbourg:
- for God's people love always to be dealing as well in temporals as spirituals
From Middle English, from Middle French timporal, temporal, from Late Latin temporālis, from tempora + -ālis.
Adjectivetemporal (not comparable)
(anatomy, relational) Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.
temporal (plural temporals)
- (skeleton) Ellipsis of temporal bone
- (zootomy) Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.
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