Temporal powers or matters relate to ordinary institutions and activities rather than to religious or spiritual ones. the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people. = secular spiritual
Roosevelt concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual" of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church" of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone" of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art
Of, relating to, or limited by time Research is often conducted to look at "temporal patterns," or those patterns that occur and change over time A "temporal scale" refers to a scale of time (e g , a scale of many years or months)