Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtɛm.pəɹ.əl/
temporal
- (also grammar) Of or relating to time.
- Of limited time; transient; passing; not perpetual.
- Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18
- The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18
- Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to spiritual.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 166:
- Not long before, he had ruefully acknowledged in a letter to his pious mother that most of his appointments to the bench of bishops had been motivated by distinctly temporal impulses.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 166:
- Lasting a short time only.
- Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.
- temporal power; temporal courts
- 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: temporel
- German: diesseitig, weltlich
- Portuguese: temporal
- French: temporaire
- German: temporär
- Italian: temporale
- Portuguese: temporário
- Russian: преходя́щий
temporal (plural temporals)
- (chiefly, in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.
temporal (not comparable)
- (anatomy) of the temples of the head
temporal (plural temporals)
- (skeleton) Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.
- 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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