temporal

adj

1. (not-comparable, relational, usually)Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.

   “temporal power, temporal courts”

   “The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled”

   “The [papal] train was in use until 1871, when the Pope [Pius IX] lost his temporal power.”

   “Not long before, he had ruefully acknowledged in a letter to his pious mother that most of his appointments to the bench of bishops had been motivated by distinctly temporal impulses.”

2. (not-comparable, relational, usually)Relating to time:

   “The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

3. (euphemistic, not-comparable, relational, usually)Relating to time:
4. (not-comparable, relational, usually)Relating to time:
5. (not-comparable, relational, usually)Relating to time:
6. (not-comparable, relational, usually)Relating to time:
7. (not-comparable, relational)Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

noun

1. (in-plural)Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

   “for God's people love always to be dealing as well in temporals as spirituals”

   “He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of temporal bone.
3. Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.