Tem·po·ral a.
1. Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.
The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. --2 Cor. iv. 18.
Is this an hour for temporal affairs? --Shak.
2. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.
Lords temporal. See under Lord, n.
Temporal augment. See the Note under Augment, n.
Syn: -- Transient; fleeting; transitory.