tempo-rally

adjective

of or pertaining to time.

pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly: temporal joys.

enduring for a time only; temporary; transitory ( opposed to eternal ).

Grammar.

of, pertaining to, or expressing time: a temporal adverb.

of or pertaining to the tenses of a verb.

secular, lay, or civil, as opposed to ecclesiastical.

noun Usually, temporals.

a temporal possession, estate, or the like; temporality.

something that is temporal; a temporal matter or affair.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English (adj. and noun) < Latin temporālis, equivalent to tempor- (stem of tempus) time + -ālis -al¹

Related forms

tem·po·ral·ly, adverb

tem·po·ral·ness, noun

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temporal¹ (ˈtɛmpərəl, ˈtɛmprəl)

—*adj*
1.	of or relating to time
2.	of or relating to secular as opposed to spiritual or religious affairs: the lords spiritual and temporal
3.	lasting for a relatively short time
4.	grammar of or relating to tense or the linguistic expression of time in general: a temporal adverb

[C14: from Latin temporālis, from tempus time]

'temporally¹

—*adv*

'temporalness¹

—n

temporal² (ˈtɛmpərəl, ˈtɛmprəl)

—*adj*
	anatomy of, relating to, or near the temple or temples

[C16: from Late Latin temporālis belonging to the temples; see temple²]

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temporal

mid-14c., "worldly, secular," later "of time, terrestrial, earthly" (late 14c.), "temporary, lasting only for a time" (late 14c.), from O.Fr. temporal, from L. temporalis "of time, temporary," from tempus (gen. temporis) "time, season, proper time or season." Related: Temporality.

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Medical Dictionary

temporal tem·po·ral² (těm'pər-əl, těm'prəl)
adj.
Abbr. temp.
Of, relating to, or near the temples of the skull.

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temporal

(těm'pər-əl) Pronunciation Key
Relating to or near the bones that form the sides and part of the base of the skull.

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"Speech is after all only a system of gestures, having the peculiarity that each gesture produces a characteristic sound, so that it can be perceived through the ear as well as through the eye. Listening to a speaker instead of looking at him tends to make us think of speech as essentially a system of sounds; but it is not; essentially it is a system of gestures made with the lungs and larynx, and the cavities of the mouth and nose. We get still farther away from the fundamental facts about speech when we think of it as something that can be written and read, forgetting that what writing, in our clumsy notations, can represent is only a small part of the spoken sound, where pitch and stress, tempo and rhythm, are almost entirely ignored. But even a writer or reader, unless the words are to fall flat or meaningless, must speak them soundlessly to himself. The written or printed book is only a series of hints, as elliptical as the neumes of Byzantine music, from which the reader thus works out for himself the speech-gestures which alone have the gift of expression."

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