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# temporal

«temporal» in Mova's school dictionary: **worldly, belonging to this life and not to religion or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) Temporal means to do with time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporal/#m2)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «temporal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temporal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.