1. (n.) Pertaining to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.

2. (a.) of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

3. (n.) Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.

4. (n.) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.