Spiritual vs. Temporal

Spiritual (adjective)

Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

“Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.”

Spiritual (adjective)

Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.

Spiritual (adjective)

Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.

Spiritual (adjective)

Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.

“a spiritual substance or being”

Spiritual (adjective)

Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

Spiritual (adjective)

Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.

Spiritual (adjective)

Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.

“the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation”

Spiritual (noun)

A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.

Spiritual (noun)

Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

“He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell.”

Temporal (adjective)

Of or relating to time.

Temporal (adjective)

Of limited time; transient; passing; not perpetual.

Temporal (adjective)

Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to spiritual.

Temporal (adjective)

Lasting a short time only.

Temporal (adjective)

Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.

“temporal power; temporal courts”

Temporal (adjective)

of the temples of the head

Temporal (noun)

Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

Temporal (noun)

Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.

Temporal (noun)

Any of a reptile’s scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.