Definition: Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the
temporal bone; a temporal artery.
Definition: Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life,
or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.
Definition: Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical;
as, temporal power; temporal courts.
Definition: Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used
chiefly in the plural.