pretemporaln.adj.2
/ˌpriːˈtɛmp(ə)rəl/, U.S. /priˈtɛmp(ə)rəl/ A muscle situated in front of the temporal muscle in certain reptiles. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > reptiles > [noun] > parts of
atterc1000
fingera1398
spear1608
pecten1713
supraciliary1838
postocular1856
patagium1857
podotheca1864
pretemporal1866
keeled scale1870
postnasal1871
prenasal1886
supracoracoid1897
hedonic gland1901
guanophore1924
chorio-allantois1933
1866 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. I. 223 Its fibres pass vertically external to those of the pretemporal.
B. adj.2 Zoology and Anatomy.
Situated or occurring in front of the temporal bone of the skull or the temporal lobe of the brain.
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1869 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 159 778 Not only has this centre affected the overlying cartilage, it has grown into short wings between the heads of the pterygoids,..and into huge pretemporal wings (the ‘posterior pterygoid processes’).
1898 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 19 248 A narrow but well-defined groove runs the entire length of the face, beginning at a foramen near the pretemporal ridge.
1995 Acta Neurochirurgica 136 204 (title) The pretemporal approach to the interpeduncular and petroclival regions.
2003 Jrnl. Neurol. Sci. 214 17/2 EEG showed focal, paroxysmal activity in the right pre-temporal region.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pretemporaladj.1
/ˌpriːˈtɛmp(ə)rəl/, U.S. /ˌpriˈtɛmp(ə)rəl/ Existing or occurring before the beginning of time.
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the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective] > before the eternal or infinite in past duration
fore-eternal1587
fore-everlasting1587
eternal1690
pretemporal1798
1798 W. Drysdale Sacred Script. Theory of Earth 8 The pre-temporal period, so to speak, when the first atoms of matter were called into existence.
1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 500 To meditative converse most devote, And strict collation of the Spirit-book With the pretemporal volume, writ of God.
1894 E. K. Mitchell tr. C. G. A. von Harnack Outl. Hist. Dogma App. i. 319 The pretemporal existence was a matter of certainty.
1929 S. Angus Relig. Quests of Graeco-Roman World xx. 396 These functions He could perform as the supreme intermediary between God and man, and also as the pre-temporal agent of creation.
1996 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 10 Dec. Evolutionists..believe in a non-living mix of matter, energy and the laws of nature existing in the pre-temporal void.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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