temporal /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/adjective 8noun 3forms 3 adjective8 •Relating to time. •Of or relating to time as distinguished from space. •Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time. •Relating to or denoting time or tense. •Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits. •Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.temporal power, temporal courtsThe Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled •Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. — 1611 •Lasting for a short time only. noun3 •[in the plural] Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — 1876 •Ellipsis of temporal bone. •Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales. formstemporals · more temporal · most temporal