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Secular :: Secular (a.) Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly..

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

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..

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

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..

Mastoid :: Mastoid (a.) Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear.

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..

Petromastoid :: Petromastoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, periotic..

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..

Spirituality :: Spirituality (n.) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities..

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

Stylomaxillary :: Stylomastoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.

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..

Petrous :: Petrous (a.) Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone..

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..

Temporomaxillary :: Temporomaxillary (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.

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

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..

Policy :: Policy (n.) Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem..

Pretemporal :: Pretemporal (a.) Situated in front of the temporal bone.

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