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Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence. Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any condition. Jer. Taylor.

To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America.

Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South.

of commission (Naut.), to detach the officers and crew and retire it from active service, temporarily or permanently. -- To put the great seal, or the Treasury, into commission, to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of o…

A piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion; as:

A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.

Residence temporarily, or for a short time.

Inhabiting or occupying temporarily.

Conducive; tending; contributing. Bacon. All his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. Bentley.

A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the æsthetic craze. Various crazes concerning health and disease. W. Pater.

One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross- pawl.

The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.

Pertaining to the temple; temporal.

The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.

A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.

ebating society or club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.

Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated. "Dedicate to nothing temporal." Shak.

The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.

To put off; to delay to act; to wait. Pius was able to defer and temporize at leisure. J. A. Symonds.

borough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. Deficiency of a curve (Geom.), the amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.