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Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery. Temporal bone, a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal portion above the ear, corresponding to the squamosal and zygoma of the lowe…

The laity; temporality. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

In a temporal manner; secularly. [R.] South.

Worldliness. [R.] Cotgrave.

A secular possession; a temporality.

Extemporaneous; unpremeditated. [Obs.] B. Jonson. -- Ex*tem"po*ral*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Below the temple; below the temporal bone.

Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n.

Situated in front of the temporal bone.

That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal. [R.]

Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.

To perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic] That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity. Jer. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of cri…

f the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.

Successor or vicar; -- a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey, [Writting also calif.]

e of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor.

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

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.

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