Temporal



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj.时间的; 世俗的
• ［英］ adj. 时间的 ( relating to time) ; 世俗的 ( relating to earthly things)
• ［记］ tempor ( 时间) +al -> 世俗的
• ［例］ human institutions and temporal events ( 人类习俗与世事)

Webster Collegiate

I. adjective

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French temporel, from Latin temporalis, from tempor-, tempus time
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. of or relating to time as opposed to eternity
  • b. of or relating to earthly life
  • c. lay or secular rather than clerical or sacred ; civil <lords temporal>
• 2. of or relating to grammatical tense or a distinction of time
• 3.
  • a. of or relating to time as distinguished from space
  • b. of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time ; chronological
• ? temporally adverb

II. noun

• Etymology: Middle French, from temporal, adjective
• Date: 1541
• a temporal part (as a bone or muscle)

III. adjective

• Etymology: Middle French, from Late Latin temporalis, from Latin tempora temples
• Date: 1597
• of or relating to the temples or the sides of the skull behind the orbits

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