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Etymology

From Middle English temporal, temporel (“transitory, worldly, material, of secular society”), from Old French temporel or Latin temporālis (“of time (in grammar), temporary, relating to time as opposed to eternity”), from tempus (“time, period, opportunity”) + -ālis.

derived from temporālis
derived from temporel
inherited from temporal, temporel

Definitions

1
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
- The [papal] train was in use until 1871, when the Pope [Pius IX] lost his temporal power.
2
Relating to time
Relating to time:
- The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
3
Anything temporal or secular
Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
- for God's people love always to be dealing as well in temporals as spirituals
- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.
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1. Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.
2. Ellipsis of temporal bone.
3. Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial…
  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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Derived

abtemporal, antitemporal, atemporal, biotemporal, contemporal, cotemporal, geotemporal, hypertemporal, intertemporal, isotemporal, metatemporal, microtemporal, monotemporal, multitemporal, nontemporal, omnitemporal, phylotemporal, physiotemporal, pretemporal, pseudotemporal, retrotemporal, sociotemporal, spatiotemporal, spatio-temporal, spectrotemporal, supertemporal, supratemporal, temporal case, temporal dead zone, temporal deixis, temporal distributive, temporal hour, temporalism, temporality, temporalize, temporalise, temporal logic, temporally, temporalness, temporal organ · +5 more

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A definitional loop anchored at temporal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

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