Is this an hour for temporal affairs?
Shak.
2. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as,
temporal power; temporal courts.
Lords temporal. See under Lord, n. — Temporal augment. See the Note
under Augment, n.
Syn. — Transient; fleeting; transitory.
Tem"po*ral, n. Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; — used
chiefly in the plural. Dryden.
He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or
temporals.
Lowell.
Tem`po*ral"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Temporalities (#). [L. temporalitas, in
LL., possessions of the church: cf. F. temporalité.] 1. The state or
quality of being temporary; — opposed to perpetuity.