From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtemporaltem‧po‧ral /ˈtempərəl/ adjective formal1TIME/HOW LONGrelating to or limited by timethe temporal character of human existence2RELIGIONrelating to practical instead of religiousaffairsEdgar ruled over the Church as well as his temporal kingdom.Examples from the Corpustemporal• The Emperor was both a temporal and a spiritualruler.• Despite their different temporal and geographical foci, several definingresearch questions have remained the same.• It did not imitate the variability of the secular rulers who thought only of temporalgain.• Sometimes the hallucinationsassociated with small seizures in the temporallobe have characteristicssuggestive of schizophrenic thought, especially paranoia.• George once had a patient who heard Led Zeppelinmusic each time a particular temporal lobe site was stimulated.• It all centres around a part of the brain called the medial temporal lobe.• Our physical bodies are just a temporal, passing reality.Origintemporal(1300-1400)Latintemporalis, from tempus"time"