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# temporal

adjective

«temporal» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (old use) Temporal means worldly, belonging to this life and not to religion or the Church. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporal/#m1)
2. Temporal means to do with time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporal/#m2)

### In the lessons

in old tales, "temporal goods" are wealth and land, and a "temporal court" is a law court of the state

### Examples

- The king had temporal power. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporal/#x1)
- Gold and land are temporal goods. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporal/#x2)
- Words like "then" and "soon" are temporal words. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporal/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «temporal» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporal/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«temporal» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/temporal.html) on Mova free.