noun anything temporal or secular; a temporality;
used chiefly in the plural.
2. temporal ·adj of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
3. temporal ·noun civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.
4. temporal ·noun of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.