temporal
Definition of temporal:
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part of speech: adverb
TEMPORALLY.
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part of speech: adjective
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part of speech: adjective
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part of speech: adjective
Pert. to this life, this world, or the body only; worldly; secular; not eternal; measured or limited by time or by this life.
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part of speech: adjective
Pertaining to time, esp. to this life or world, opposed to eternal: worldly, secular, or civil, opposed to sacred or ecclesiastical.
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Common misspellings:
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- temperal (52.0%)
- temperol (8.0%)
- tymporal (8.0%)
- temoral (8.0%)
- temoporal (16.0%)
- tempural (8.0%)
Usage examples for temporal:
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Conversation now turned upon the culture of the bee and its habits, until the way opened to rise from the temporal to the spiritual.
"Thirty Years in the Itinerancy" – Wesson Gage Miller -
Despite the conflict over temporal affairs, which at times was exceedingly bitter, the kings and rulers of England and France never appear to have seriously questioned the religious authority of the Church or the spiritual supremacy of the pope.
"A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1." – Carlton J. H. Hayes
