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adjective ˈtɛmp(ə)r(ə)lˈtɛmp(ə)rəl 1Relating to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; secular. the Church did not imitate the secular rulers who thought only of temporal gain Example sentencesExamples - Popes ceased to be temporal princes and concentrated on spiritual matters.
- The Queen thought more of the temporal than of the spiritual.
- The cardinal should leave temporal affairs to the government.
- Christianity teaches that the state is part of the divine ordering of temporal affairs.
- A separation between the spiritual and the temporal is desirable and possible.
- They helped him begin his spiritual and temporal education.
- Temporal and spiritual authority converge in him.
- They merely rejected the authority of the archdiocese over their temporal affairs.
- Her ongoing work provides support both spiritual and temporal for cancer sufferers.
- An uneasy relationship remains between the city's temporal and spiritual leaders.
- All everyone wants is pleasure, money, affluence - no matter how mundane or how temporal it is.
- Rome finally seems to have abandoned its temporal ambitions for purely spiritual aims.
- The land is the link between the spiritual and the temporal.
- He was the temporal and spiritual ruler of the Muslim world.
- The Catholic Church struggled to assert its temporal and spiritual power throughout this period.
- The church withdrew from temporal affairs.
- The bishop appointed a committee of seven laymen to run the temporal affairs of the parish.
- Each person lives in two spheres of existence - the spiritual and the temporal realms.
- They deplored the Church's rich landholdings and its role in temporal affairs.
- They laid special emphasis on the separation of temporal and spiritual authorities.
Synonyms secular, non-spiritual, worldly, profane, material, mundane, earthly, terrestrial non-religious, lay carnal, fleshly, mortal, corporeal rare sublunary, terrene 2Relating to time. the spatial and temporal dimensions of human interference in complex ecosystems Example sentencesExamples - Simplistic analyses of changes in vegetation cover probably confused natural temporal variability with long-term degradation.
- Ancient DNA provides a temporal dimension to the study of genetic variation.
- Human experience and behaviour is characterized by temporal segmentation.
- These spectres exist in different temporal dimensions.
- They become conscious of the passage of time - the temporal as a kind of fourth dimension.
- All three criteria must thus be met in close temporal proximity.
- Rules can be aborted at any point in their temporal development.
- Jack is thrown back in time and gets caught in a temporal paradox.
- Art is temporal, finite… born to die.
- Studies over successive years are required to measure temporal variation.
- We investigated temporal changes in the genetic structure of human populations during the past 2,500 years.
- He has lost confidence in the narrative thread, in the continuity of temporal sequence.
- This issue explores some of the temporal and political dimensions of art.
- In our perception of the world, spatial and temporal dimensions merely appear to be distinct.
- The temporal dimension is vital to the practice of wildlife management.
- Temporal concerns are often ignored in approaches to painting.
- 2.1Grammar Relating to or denoting time or tense.
Example sentencesExamples - English has plenty of adjectives for modifying the temporal properties of nouns, including ‘former’, ‘recent’, and ‘forthcoming’.
- His teaching begins with a temporal adverb: ‘now.’
- The meaning of the tense morphemes alone does not completely determine the temporal interpretation of a sentence.
- The second, third, and fourth sentences are without verbs and hence have no temporal location.
- These meanings typically have to do with temporalor logical relations between the events described in the clauses.
Origin Middle English: from Old French temporel or Latin temporalis, from tempus, tempor- 'time'. adjective ˈtɛmp(ə)r(ə)lˈtɛmp(ə)rəl Anatomy Of or situated in the temples of the head. arterial biopsy usually confirms the diagnosis of temporal arteritis Example sentencesExamples - A temporal artery biopsy is suggested.
- The middle cerebral artery supplies much of the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the brain.
- Care is taken to avoid damage to the temporal branch of the facial nerve.
- Commonly used sites for catheterization include the temporal veins.
- The pain is typically centered over the temporal regions.
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin temporalis, from tempora 'the temples' (see temple2). adjectiveˈtemp(ə)rəlˈtɛmp(ə)rəl 1Relating to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; secular. the Church did not imitate the secular rulers who thought only of temporal gain Example sentencesExamples - They deplored the Church's rich landholdings and its role in temporal affairs.
- The Queen thought more of the temporal than of the spiritual.
- They helped him begin his spiritual and temporal education.
- He was the temporal and spiritual ruler of the Muslim world.
- The Catholic Church struggled to assert its temporal and spiritual power throughout this period.
- The bishop appointed a committee of seven laymen to run the temporal affairs of the parish.
- Temporal and spiritual authority converge in him.
- Rome finally seems to have abandoned its temporal ambitions for purely spiritual aims.
- The cardinal should leave temporal affairs to the government.
- All everyone wants is pleasure, money, affluence - no matter how mundane or how temporal it is.
- Each person lives in two spheres of existence - the spiritual and the temporal realms.
- They merely rejected the authority of the archdiocese over their temporal affairs.
- A separation between the spiritual and the temporal is desirable and possible.
- Popes ceased to be temporal princes and concentrated on spiritual matters.
- The church withdrew from temporal affairs.
- Her ongoing work provides support both spiritual and temporal for cancer sufferers.
- They laid special emphasis on the separation of temporal and spiritual authorities.
- An uneasy relationship remains between the city's temporal and spiritual leaders.
- The land is the link between the spiritual and the temporal.
- Christianity teaches that the state is part of the divine ordering of temporal affairs.
Synonyms secular, non-spiritual, worldly, profane, material, mundane, earthly, terrestrial 2Relating to time. the spatial and temporal dimensions of human interference in complex ecosystems Example sentencesExamples - Human experience and behaviour is characterized by temporal segmentation.
- Rules can be aborted at any point in their temporal development.
- Ancient DNA provides a temporal dimension to the study of genetic variation.
- We investigated temporal changes in the genetic structure of human populations during the past 2,500 years.
- All three criteria must thus be met in close temporal proximity.
- Studies over successive years are required to measure temporal variation.
- This issue explores some of the temporal and political dimensions of art.
- Simplistic analyses of changes in vegetation cover probably confused natural temporal variability with long-term degradation.
- The temporal dimension is vital to the practice of wildlife management.
- Temporal concerns are often ignored in approaches to painting.
- Art is temporal, finite… born to die.
- In our perception of the world, spatial and temporal dimensions merely appear to be distinct.
- Jack is thrown back in time and gets caught in a temporal paradox.
- They become conscious of the passage of time - the temporal as a kind of fourth dimension.
- These spectres exist in different temporal dimensions.
- He has lost confidence in the narrative thread, in the continuity of temporal sequence.
- 2.1Grammar Relating to or denoting time or tense.
Example sentencesExamples - His teaching begins with a temporal adverb: ‘now.’
- English has plenty of adjectives for modifying the temporal properties of nouns, including ‘former’, ‘recent’, and ‘forthcoming’.
- The meaning of the tense morphemes alone does not completely determine the temporal interpretation of a sentence.
- The second, third, and fourth sentences are without verbs and hence have no temporal location.
- These meanings typically have to do with temporalor logical relations between the events described in the clauses.
Origin Middle English: from Old French temporel or Latin temporalis, from tempus, tempor- ‘time’. adjectiveˈtemp(ə)rəlˈtɛmp(ə)rəl Anatomy Of or situated in the temples of the head. arterial biopsy usually confirms the diagnosis of temporal arteritis Example sentencesExamples - The pain is typically centered over the temporal regions.
- A temporal artery biopsy is suggested.
- The middle cerebral artery supplies much of the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the brain.
- Commonly used sites for catheterization include the temporal veins.
- Care is taken to avoid damage to the temporal branch of the facial nerve.
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin temporalis, from tempora ‘the temples’ (see temple). |