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Temporal

adjective

Not eternal.

Of or relating to or limited by time. "Temporal dimensions" , "Temporal and spacial boundaries" , "Music is a temporal art"

Of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit).

Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world. Synonyms: secular, worldly. "Temporal possessions of the church"

Of this earth or world. "Our temporal existence"

noun

The semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb. Synonym: temporal role.

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"Temporal" Quotes from Famous Books

... Theodosius was less afraid of strong measures than Valens. His first rescript (Feb. 27, 380) commands all men to follow the Nicene doctrine 'committed by the apostle Peter to the Romans, and now professed by Damasus of Rome and Peter of Alexandria,' and plainly threatens to impose temporal punishments on the heretics. Here it will be seen that Theodosius abandons Constantine's test of orthodoxy by subscription to a creed. It seemed easier now, and more in the spirit of Latin Christianity, to require communion with certain churches. ...

— The Arian Controversy • H. M. Gwatkin

... shrieked at her antagonists the threat that her children's guardian, no less a personage than master-tailor Nickel Seubolt, was a man who would help her gain her just rights and snatch the endangered souls of Ortel and her poor young Metz from temporal and eternal destruction in ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... Roman Church also played their part in obliterating old religious landmarks. Settling down in some remote place with the Madonna as their leader or as their "second Mother," these companies of holy men soon acquired such temporal and spiritual influence as enabled them successfully to oppose their divinity to the local saint, whose once bright glories began to pale before her effulgence. Their labours in favour of the Mother of God were part of that work of consolidating Papal power which was ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

... Christians avoided greatness in the Church as well as in the world. They would not accept rank and station on account of their spiritual peril, when they were no longer encompassed by temporal trials. When they were elected to the episcopate, when they were appointed to the priesthood, they fled away and hid themselves. They recollected our Lord's words, "Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant;" and again, "Be not ye called Rabbi, for ...

— Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8) • John Henry Newman

... on the article, which says: 'I believe that of my own strength and wisdom I can neither believe in Christ nor come to Him;' and he showed clearly, at least in my opinion, both from Scripture and from our daily experience, our miserable shortcomings in the spiritual as well as in the temporal life, so long as we put our trust only 'in the arm of flesh and ...

— Skipper Worse • Alexander Lange Kielland

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