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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..

Worldling :: Worldling () A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.

Temporo- :: Temporo- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the temple, or temporal bone; as, temporofacial..

Temporalities :: Temporalities (pl. ) of Temporalit.

Worldly :: Worldly (a.) Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men..

Crotaphite :: Crotaphite (n.) The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.

Post-temporal :: Post-temporal (a.) Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes.

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..

Temporal :: Temporal (n.) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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..

Monastical :: Monastical (a.) Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse.

Post-temporal :: Post-temporal (n.) A post-temporal bone.

Caliph :: Caliph (n.) Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey..

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

Petrosal :: Petrosal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the petrous, or petrosal, bone, or the corresponding part of the temporal bone..

Supraclavicular :: Supraclavicle (n.) A bone which usually connects the clavicle with the post-temporal in the pectorial arch of fishes.

Induction :: Induction (n.) The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities..

Curia :: Curia (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana..

Superterranean :: Supertemporal (n.) That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal.

Supratemporal :: Supratemporal (a.) Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa.

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