usage: not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt
2. temporal
usage: of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art"
3. temporal
usage: of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone"
4. temporal, worldly (vs. unworldly)
usage: of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church"
5. temporal, worldly, profane (vs. sacred)
usage: concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"
6. temporal, earthly (vs. heavenly)
usage: of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"