·noun Anything temporal or secular; a temporality;
— used chiefly in the plural.
II. Temporal ·adj Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
III. Temporal ·noun Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.
IV. Temporal ·noun Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.