Belonging to the world and its affairs as distinguished from the church and religion; civil, lay, temporal. Chiefly used as a negative term, with…

Secular jurisdiction or power. Obsolete.

Temporal power, jurisdiction, affairs, property, etc.: esp. the temporal property of the clergy; = temporalty, n. 1. Obsolete.

Temporal or secular things, affairs, business; temporal authority. ? Obsolete.

a magistrate dealing with civil as opposed to criminal or (formerly) ecclesiastical matters.