Definition of temporal

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Temporal (n.) Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts..

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Squamous :: Squamous () Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale..
Defensor :: Defensor (n.) The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.
Temporalty :: Temporalty (n.) A secular possession; a temporality.
Monastery :: Monastery (n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females..
Spiritualization :: Spirituality (n.) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality..
Temporalness :: Temporalness (n.) Worldliness.
Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory..
Extemporal :: Extemporal (a.) Extemporaneous; unpremeditated.
Paramastoid :: Paramastoid (a.) Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals..
Monastical :: Monastical (a.) Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse.
Stephanite :: Stephanion (n.) The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture..
Tympanohyal :: Tympanohyal (n.) The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult man..
Petrous :: Petrous (a.) Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone..
Stylobate :: Stylo- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the styloid process of the temporal bone; as, stylohyal, stylomastoid, stylomaxillary..
State :: State (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6..
Curia :: Curia (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana..
Temporomaxillary :: Temporomaxillary (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.
Vaginal :: Vaginal (a.) Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone..
Fossa :: Fossa (n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds..
Squamose :: Squamosal (n.) The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal..
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