Definition of temporal

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Temporal (a.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery..

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Postglenoid :: Postglenoid (a.) Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.
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..
Worldling :: Worldling () A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.
Epiotic :: Epiotic (n.) The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone..
Estate :: Estate (n.) The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons..
Post-temporal :: Post-temporal (n.) A post-temporal bone.
Temporal :: Temporal (n.) Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal..
Defensor :: Defensor (n.) The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.
Petromastoid :: Petromastoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, periotic..
Basi- :: Basi- () A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc..
Petrosal :: Petrosal (a.) Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal 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..
Petrous :: Petrous (a.) Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone..
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..
Curia :: Curia (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana..
Vidame :: Vidame (n.) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles..
Extemporal :: Extemporal (a.) Extemporaneous; unpremeditated.
Temporalty :: Temporalty (n.) The laity; secular people.
Pretemporal :: Pretemporal (a.) Situated in front of the temporal bone.
Imaum :: Imaum (n.) A Mohammedan prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power..
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