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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.