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temporal

Having to do with time. Contrast with "spatial," which deals with space.


temporal
Anatomy of, relating to, or near the temple or temples

temporal [′tem·prəl]
(science and technology)
Pertaining to or limited by time.


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For as the temporal sword is to be drawn with great circumspection in cases of religion; so it is a thing monstrous to put it into the hands of the common people.
There is, of course, a difference between knowing the temporal relation of a remembered event to the present, and knowing the time-order of two remembered events.
After my care of his eternal welfare had met with such success, I could not forbear attempting something for his temporal, and by my endeavours matters were so accommodated that the relations were willing to grant his life on condition he paid a certain number of cows, or the value.
 
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