Temporal

Temporal - Other Definitions

• (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.
  
  
• (adv.) In a temporal manner; secularly.