Spiritual vs. Temporal

By Jaxson

  • 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.

Wiktionary
  • Temporal (adjective)

    relating to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; secular

    “the Church did not imitate the secular rulers who thought only of temporal gain”

  • Temporal (adjective)

    relating to time

    “the spatial and temporal dimensions of human interference in complex ecosystems”

  • Temporal (adjective)

    relating to or denoting time or tense.

  • Temporal (adjective)

    of or situated in the temples of the head

    “arterial biopsy usually confirms the diagnosis of temporal arteritis”

Oxford Dictionary

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