temporal
Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
Example
“temporal power, temporal courts”
Other meanings
Relating to time
Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
Word history
From Latin "temporālis".
Where this comes from
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