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temporal
noun
adjective
(chiefly in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
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/ˈtɛm.pəɹ.əl/ /ˈtɛm.pəɹ.əl/
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noun
(chiefly in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
adjective
(also grammar) Of or relating to time.
Of limited time; transient; passing; not perpetual.
Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to spiritual.
Lasting a short time only.
Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.
“temporal power; temporal courts”
noun
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.
adjective
Of the temples of the head
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temporal power; temporal courts