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temporal
has definitions from the fields of religion,grammar
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[ adjective ] not eternal
Examples "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)On_the_other_hand , Christian faith knows that death is more than the natural termination of temporal existence . If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination , the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator . If death receives more_than its share of attention from the theologian and if sin receives less_than its share , the gift of the life_eternal through Christ begins to look_like the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal , i.e. , created , existence . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of the material world
Examples "temporal possessions of the church" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit)
Examples "temporal bone" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of or relating to or limited by time
Examples "temporal processing" "temporal dimensions" "temporal and spacial boundaries" "music is a temporal art" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (grammar) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designating the time of the state or action denoted by the verb
Synonyms Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of this earth or world
Examples "temporal joys" "our temporal existence" Related terms |
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