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▪ I. superˈtemporal, a.1 (n.) [super- 4 a.] That is above time; transcending time. Also n., a supertemporal thing.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i iv. §36. 625 Plotinus and Numenius..declare him [Plato] to have asserted, Three Super-Temporals or Eternals, Good, Mind or Intellect, and the Soul of the Universe. 1892N. Smyth Chr. Ethics i. i. §4. 81 Our super-temporal and super-sensible being. 1905J. C. Jones in T. Stephens Child & Relig. v. 187 They must have sinned—sinned..in a super-temporal state according to Julius Müller. ▪ II. superˈtemporal, a.2 (n.) Anat. and Zool. [super- 3 c (b).] a. Situated in the upper part of the temples or temporal region. b. n. A supertemporal bone.
1854Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 179 The bones..that circumscribe the lower part of the orbit... In fishes they are called ‘suborbitals’... A similar series of bones sometimes overarches the temporal fossæ, and are called ‘supertemporals’. 1889Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 155/2 (Descr. of Figure) Left supertemporal. Ibid. 158/2 The great length of the supertemporal fissure, and its dorsal subdivision. |