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  • The church had ended the temporal practice of polygamy in 1890, but it had never recanted the doctrine.   (source)
    temporal = earthly
  • For the things which are seen are temporal.   (source)
    temporal = concerned with the material rather than the spiritual world
  • Were it not, thinkest thou, for thy little one's temporal and eternal welfare that she be taken out of thy charge, and clad soberly, and disciplined strictly, and instructed in the truths of heaven and earth?   (source)
    temporal = earthly (concerned with the material rather than the spiritual world)
  • But I cannot call that situation nothing which has the charge of all that is of the first importance to mankind, individually or collectively considered, temporally and eternally, which has the guardianship of religion and morals, and consequently of the manners which result from their influence.   (source)
    temporally = concerned with the material (in contrast to the spiritual) world
  • His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,   (source)
    temporal = earthly (concerned with the material rather than the spiritual world)
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  • Then he followed the facial nerve from the temporal bone where it enters the skull all the way to its exit, and on the way removed many more fragments of bone which had been restricting my jaw movement.†   (source)
  • Right temporal.†   (source)
  • The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.†   (source)
  • The temporal gap between the arousal of the socioemotional system, which is an early adolescent development, and the full maturation of the cognitive control system, which occurs later, creates a period of heightened vulnerability to risk taking during middle adolescence.†   (source)
  • Farther down the wall, Langdon saw tributes to the Earth's four temporal seasons-primavera, estate, autunno, inverno.†   (source)
  • Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations.†   (source)
  • Mr. Harvey left his house for the final time while my mother was granted her most temporal wish.†   (source)
  • We create temporal loops in which peculiar folk can live indefinitely.†   (source)
  • The same is likely true of at least one other study, called "The Use of Deep Temporal Leads in the Study of Psychomotor Epilepsy," which involved inserting metal probes into patients' brains.†   (source)
  • But to destroy, or lose, a deathless thing—to break bonds stronger than the temporal — was a metaphysical uncoupling all its own, a startling new flavor of despair.†   (source)
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  • In the east-wing ballroom, a dozen different business conventions were going on at the same time within temporal centimeters of each other.†   (source)
  • If she were at liberty, something might surely be done for her temporal, as well as her spiritual weal, and she might have an opportunity of meditating on the past, and of preparing for a future life.†   (source)
  • He studied scientific truths, then became upset even more by the apparent cause of their temporal condition.†   (source)
  • Socrates represents a new era, geographically as well as temporally.†   (source)
  • The church, refusing as it did to get involved in temporal matters, remained the only sanctuary.†   (source)
  • Apparently the Reverend Dameron was determined young Andrews should answer not only to the Almighty, but also to more temporal powers, for it was his testimony, added to the defendant's confession, that settled matters.†   (source)
  • Sometimes these stories were what linguists call temporal narratives.†   (source)
  • Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.†   (source)
  • Following God's will is the career, so attending college, in the view of many witnesses, is a selection of the temporal over the divine.†   (source)
  • It is a noble cause we are engaged in, it is the cause of virtue and mankind, every temporal advantage and comfort to us, and our posterity depends upon the vigor of our exertions….†   (source)
  • In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun.†   (source)
  • O the ultimate evil in the temporal world is deeper than any specific evil, such as hatred, or suffering, or death!†   (source)
  • He was still the largest landowner, he still continued to preach frequently on Sundays and to explain with practical clarity the laws and views held in heaven upon a variety of matters and practices, and, upon the appointed days, he administered the laws temporal, as a magistrate.†   (source)
  • …days, years—but erased when no longer needed; permanently stored data like a human being's education—but learned perfectly and never forgotten—though may be condensed, rearranged, relocated, edited—and last but not finally, long lists of special memories ranging from memoranda files through very complex special programs, and each location tagged by own retrieval signal and locked or not, with endless possibilities on lock signals: sequential, parallel, temporal, situational, others.†   (source)
  • I forgot my own being, abandoned my limited range of senses as I swam in a sea that was neither dark nor light, formed nor formless, yet knowing my way, subsumed, as it were, within a perpetual act of that thing we had decided to call ludus that was creation, destruction, and sustenance, patterned and infinitely repatterned, scattered and joined, mounting and descending, divorced from all temporal phenomena yet containing the essence of time.†   (source)
  • Mr. Randel and I had an unwritten, unspoken law that we would never cross swords professionally, that our friendship was too intense and personal to be tarnished in some abortive, temporal crusade concerning our jobs.†   (source)
  • It was simply a honey-comb paper rack turned out of temporal phrase with a single-cycle beat.†   (source)
  • They don't publish temporal maps of these places, for obvious reasons.†   (source)
  • To hear it you will need a frontal lobe and things with names like colliculus and temporal gyrus and you wont have them anymore.†   (source)
  • Scientific truth was not dogma, good for eternity, but a temporal quantitative entity that could be studied like anything else.†   (source)
  • And if there's no ingress or egress—no valve through which may be vented the various pressures that accrue naturally in a closed temporal system—"†   (source)
  • "Of course, we were here on Cairnholm a decade or more before the third of September, 1940—physically isolated, thanks to the island's unique geography—but it wasn't until that date that we also needed temporal isolation."†   (source)
  • Something had to be done, so people like myself created places where young peculiars could live apart from common folk—physically and temporally isolated enclaves like this one, of which I am enormously proud.†   (source)
  • The music and chanting of the assembly continued through the afternoon, "most sweetly and exquisitely," and he quite approved of the priest's "good, short, moral essay" on the duty of parents to see to their children's temporal and spiritual interests.†   (source)
  • When the normal participants looked at the chair, however, they used a completely different and less powerful part of the brain—the inferior temporal gyrus—which is normally reserved for objects.†   (source)
  • The others surfaced around me, squealing and holding their ears, everyone feeling the pressure that accompanied quick temporal shifts.†   (source)
  • We hide in these temporal backwaters, afraid of the very people we should be ruling, arrested in a state of perpetual childhood by this confederacy of busybodies—these women!†   (source)
  • Above them, directional signs pointed the way to certain offices: 4— UNDERSECRETARY OF TEMPORAL AFFAIRS 4— CONSERVATOR OF GRAPHICAL RL CORDS NONSPECIFIC MATTERS OF URGENCY —I DEPT. OF OBFUSCATION AND DEFERMENT —I Through the door to the Temporal Affairs office, I saw a man trapped in the ice.†   (source)
  • Each second when the safe phase and the temporal phase coincided, the rack pulsed with a brilliant glow.†   (source)
  • He switched the safe into temporal phase, revealing the honeycomb paper rack, and reached for the small red envelope in the upper left-hand pigeon hole.†   (source)
  • Looking merely at the temporal aspect of the case, you would find poverty hard to bear.†   (source)
  • Temporal power, to build a good world, To keep order, as the world knows order.†   (source)
  • What I mean is, that the ideal of my Round Table was a temporal ideal.†   (source)
  • Others have come, temporal tempters, With pleasure and power at palpable prlcie.†   (source)
  • The taste of the fruits of temporal knowledge draws the concentration of the spirit away from the center of the eon to the peripheral crisis of the moment.†   (source)
  • The attitude which you want to guard against is that in which temporal affairs are treated primarily as material for obedience.†   (source)
  • If we invent another bodily employment, a temporal employment—mere empire building or something like that—we shall be faced by the same problem again, probably worse, as soon as it has been achieved.†   (source)
  • With Carson's help he had informed himself fully about conditions there, and about the powerful old priest, Antonio José Martínez, who was ruler in temporal as well as in spiritual affairs.†   (source)
  • The simplest object, framed by the controlled simplicity of the teahouse, stands out in mysterious beauty, its silence holding the secret of temporal existence.†   (source)
  • It is the most completely temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.†   (source)
  • When I see the temporal suffering of humans who finally escape us, I feel as if I had been allowed to taste the first course of a rich banquet and then denied the rest.†   (source)
  • 1 see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation.†   (source)
  • The union of the two is productive of the world, in which all things are at once temporal and eternal, created in the image of this self-knowing male-female God.†   (source)
  • What he ought to say, of course, is obvious to us; that the problem of adapting the particular weather to the particular prayers is merely the appearance, at two points in his temporal mode of perception, of the total problem of adapting the whole spiritual universe to the whole corporeal universe; that creation in its entirety operates at every point of space and time, or rather that their kind of consciousness forces them to encounter the whole, self-consistent creative act as a…†   (source)
  • You, Reginald, three times traitor you : Traitor to me as my temporal vassal, Traitor to me as your spiritual lord, Traitor to God in desecrating His Church.†   (source)
  • Man, understood however not as "I" but as "Thou": for the ideals and temporal institutions of no tribe, race, continent, social class, or century can be the measure of the inexhaustible and multifariously wonderful divine existence that is the life in all of us.†   (source)
  • Had Becket concurred with the King's wishes, we should have had an almost ideal State: a union of spiritual and temporal administration, under the central government.†   (source)
  • The gestures of "fear not" and "bestowing boons" teach that she protects her children, that the pairs of opposites of the universal agony are not what they seem, and that for one centered in eternity the phantasmagoria of temporal "goods" and "evils" is but a reflex of the mind—as the goddess herself, though apparently trampling down the god, is actually his blissful dream.†   (source)
  • Power to bind and loose: bind, Thomas, bind, King and bishop under your heel King, <*fnp<3ror, bishop, baron, king : Uncertain mastery of melting armies, War, plague, and revolution, New conspiracies, broken pacts; To be master or servant within an hour, This is the course of temporal power.†   (source)
  • I saw him as Chancellor, flattered by the King, Liked or feared by courtiers, in their over bearing fashion, MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL 885 Despised and despising, always isolated, Never one among them, always insecure; His pride always feeding upon his own virtues, Pride drawing sustenance from impartiality, Pride drawing sustenance from generosity, Loathing power given by temporal devolution, Wishing subjection to God alone.†   (source)
  • The Roman Catholic believes that the Church on earth cannot stand without universal temporal Power.†   (source)
  • All temporal jurisdiction expired upon its threshold.†   (source)
  • I was indebted to her for all my comforts, spiritual or temporal.†   (source)
  • The Bible gives me a deep, comforting sense that "things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal."†   (source)
  • Bad language was no longer heard, and the little nastinesses of small boys were looked upon with hostility; the bigger boys, like the lords temporal of the Middle Ages, used the strength of their arms to persuade those weaker than themselves to virtuous courses.†   (source)
  • No anxiety is caused on Don Juan's account by any minor antagonist: he easily eludes the police, temporal and spiritual; and when an indignant father seeks private redress with the sword, Don Juan kills him without an effort.†   (source)
  • The Republican Party, the Grand Old Party of Blaine and McKinley, is the agent of the Lord and of the Baptist Church in temporal affairs.†   (source)
  • His feeling for Mrs. Dawes—who, moreover, was a married woman—was shallow and temporal, compared with his love for herself.†   (source)
  • The dead man is dead and has left our temporal world behind; he has a lot of time, which is to say, he has none at all—personally speaking.†   (source)
  • Oh God, they made me so happy that I doubt if even paradise, that shall smooth out all temporal wrongs, shall ever give me the like.†   (source)
  • …as though they were the words of a Gospel, beneath her daily actions which she had recounted to him, beneath the most ordinary places, her dressmaker's flat, the Avenue du Bois, the Hippodrome, he could feel (dissembled there, by virtue of that temporal superfluity which, after the most detailed account of how a day has been spent, always leaves something over, that may serve as a hiding place for certain unconfessed actions), he could feel the insinuation of a possible undercurrent of…†   (source)
  • But, temporal or spatial, the esthetic image is first luminously apprehended as selfbounded and selfcontained upon the immeasurable background of space or time which is not it.†   (source)
  • His papal claim to temporal authority was not made for its own sake; proxy dictatorship was, rather, a means, a path to a redemptive goal, a transitional phase from the heathen state to the kingdom of heaven.†   (source)
  • …in purgatory centuries of days and quarantines and years; yet the spiritual triumph which he felt in achieving with ease so many fabulous ages of canonical penances did not wholly reward his zeal of prayer, since he could never know how much temporal punishment he had remitted by way of suffrage for the agonizing souls; and fearful lest in the midst of the purgatorial fire, which differed from the infernal only in that it was not everlasting, his penance might avail no more than a drop…†   (source)
  • The diaries of opium-eaters record how, during the brief period of ecstasy, the drugged person's dreams have a temporal scope of ten, thirty, sometimes sixty years or even surpass all limits of man's ability to experience time—dreams, that is, whose imaginary time span vastly exceeds their actual duration and which are characterized by an incredible diminishment of the experience of time, with images thronging past so swiftly that, as one hashish-smoker puts it, the intoxicated user's…†   (source)
  • This is accomplished by diminishment—and we use this term to describe an illusory, or, to be quite explicit, diseased element, that is obviously pertinent here: diminishment occurs to some extent whenever a narrative makes use of hermetic magic and a temporal hyperperspective reminiscent of certain anomalous experiences of reality that imply that the senses have been transcended.†   (source)
  • There are situations in life on earth, or circumstances of landscape (if one can speak of "landscape" in this case), in which a confusion and obliteration of temporal and spatial distances, ending in total dizzying monotony, is more or less natural and legitimate, so that immersion into its magic during a vacation, for instance, might likewise be considered legitimate.†   (source)
  • But, taking the inward and outward history of the first half-day into consideration, Hepzibah began to fear that the shop would prove her ruin in a moral and religious point of view, without contributing very essentially towards even her temporal welfare.†   (source)
  • It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations; ecclesiastical or temporal; civil, military, maritime, or criminal; this being the place where that absolute despotic power which must, in all governments, reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.†   (source)
  • It would be worth the while to build still more deliberately than I did, considering, for instance, what foundation a door, a window, a cellar, a garret, have in the nature of man, and perchance never raising any superstructure until we found a better reason for it than our temporal necessities even.†   (source)
  • The parties by which the Union is menaced do not rest upon abstract principles, but upon temporal interests.†   (source)
  • Moreover, should he resolve not to return at all, a tale of his being alive and being in the neighbourhood would be awkward; and he was anxious to acquire a knowledge of his wife's temporal affairs before deciding which to do.†   (source)
  • It is another peculiarity of the comprehensive wisdom of the Bible that scarce a chapter, unless it be strictly narration, can be turned to, that does not contain some searching truth that is applicable to the condition of every human heart, as well as to the temporal state of its owner, either through the workings of that heart, or even in a still more direct form.†   (source)
  • In a word, if a virtuous and self-denied character is dismissed with temporal wealth, greatness, rank, or the indulgence of such a rashly formed or ill assorted passion as that of Rebecca for Ivanhoe, the reader will be apt to say, verily Virtue has had its reward.†   (source)
  • Trust me, young friend, my experience is greater than thine, when I tell thee that the unsettled life of these hunters is of vast disadvantage for temporal purposes, and it totally removes one from the influence of more sacred things.†   (source)
  • For why? for twenty years or more, nothing but loving words, and gentle moralities, and motherly loving kindness, had come from that chair;—head-aches and heart-aches innumerable had been cured there,—difficulties spiritual and temporal solved there,—all by one good, loving woman, God bless her!†   (source)
  • But one man struck at a Sahib with a fakir's buck's horn' (Kim meant the conjoined black-buck horns, which are a fakir's sole temporal weapon)—'the blood came.†   (source)
  • He had been made to accept Saunders McNitre, Luke Waters, Giles Jowls, Podgers' Pills, Rodgers' Pills, Pokey's Elixir, every one of her Ladyship's remedies spiritual or temporal.†   (source)
  • When her ears heard the bars, which went on pivots secured to the centre of the door, turning into their fastenings, not one, as she herself had directed, with a view to admit her uncle should he apply, but all three, she started again to her feet, all spiritual contemplations vanishing in her actual temporal condition, and it seemed as if all her faculties were absorbed in the sense of hearing.†   (source)
  • We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor the thoughtful man.†   (source)
  • He well understood the character of his listeners, who were mostly a primitive people in their habits; and who, being a good deal addicted to subtleties and nice distinctions in their religious opinions, viewed the introduction of any such temporal assistance as form into their spiritual worship not only with jealousy, but frequently with disgust.†   (source)
  • But, not to mention that the prejudices of the age rendered such an union almost impossible, the author may, in passing, observe, that he thinks a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity.†   (source)
  • The Church cannot share the temporal power of the State without being the object of a portion of that animosity which the latter excites.†   (source)
  • A moment later, the grave and learned Robert Mistricolle, the king's protonotary, passed, with an enormous missal under one arm and his wife on the other (Damoiselle Guillemette la Mairesse), having thus by his side his two regulators,—spiritual and temporal.†   (source)
  • The temporal interests of all the several parts of the Union are, then, intimately connected; and the same assertion holds true respecting those opinions and sentiments which may be termed the immaterial interests of men.†   (source)
  • Claude Frollo's felicitations to Jacques Coictier bore reference principally to the temporal advantages which the worthy physician had found means to extract, in the course of his much envied career, from each malady of the king, an operation of alchemy much better and more certain than the pursuit of the philosopher's stone.†   (source)
  • The reader can form an idea of the numberless embarrassments which this double relationship had caused him, and of all the temporal reefs among which his spiritual bark had been forced to tack, in order not to suffer shipwreck on either Louis or Charles, that Scylla and that Charybdis which had devoured the Duc de Nemours and the Constable de Saint-Pol.†   (source)
  • I am aware that at certain times religion may strengthen this influence, which originates in itself, by the artificial power of the laws, and by the support of those temporal institutions which direct society.†   (source)
  • In the United States, even the religion of most of the citizens is republican, since it submits the truths of the other world to private judgment: as in politics the care of its temporal interests is abandoned to the good sense of the people.†   (source)
  • The favorable influence of the temporal prosperity of America upon the institutions of that country has been so often described by others, and adverted to by myself, that I shall not enlarge upon it beyond the addition of a few facts.†   (source)
  • If the human mind be left to follow its own bent, it will regulate the temporal and spiritual institutions of society upon one uniform principle; and man will endeavor, if I may use the expression, to harmonize the state in which he lives upon earth with the state which he believes to await him in heaven.†   (source)
  • The white inhabitant of Ohio, who is obliged to subsist by his own exertions, regards temporal prosperity as the principal aim of his existence; and as the country which he occupies presents inexhaustible resources to his industry and ever-varying lures to his activity, his acquisitive ardor surpasses the ordinary limits of human cupidity: he is tormented by the desire of wealth, and he boldly enters upon every path which fortune opens to him; he becomes a sailor, a pioneer, an…†   (source)
  • If it be your intention to confer a certain elevation upon the human mind, and to teach it to regard the things of this world with generous feelings, to inspire men with a scorn of mere temporal advantage, to give birth to living convictions, and to keep alive the spirit of honorable devotedness; if you hold it to be a good thing to refine the habits, to embellish the manners, to cultivate the arts of a nation, and to promote the love of poetry, of beauty, and of renown; if you would…†   (source)
  • This was the reason why the temporal powers of the pope were little esteemed in Italy.†   (source)
  • Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?†   (source)
  • It never occurred to him that by this action he was weakening himself, depriving himself of friends and of those who had thrown themselves into his lap, whilst he aggrandized the Church by adding much temporal power to the spiritual, thus giving it greater authority.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, if any one should ask of me how comes it that the Church has attained such greatness in temporal power, seeing that from Alexander backwards the Italian potentates (not only those who have been called potentates, but every baron and lord, though the smallest) have valued the temporal power very slightly—yet now a king of France trembles before it, and it has been able to drive him from Italy, and to ruin the Venetians—although this may be very manifest, it does not appear…†   (source)
  • You must understand that the empire has recently come to be repudiated in Italy, that the Pope has acquired more temporal power, and that Italy has been divided up into more states, for the reason that many of the great cities took up arms against their nobles, who, formerly favoured by the emperor, were oppressing them, whilst the Church was favouring them so as to gain authority in temporal power: in many others their citizens became princes.†   (source)
  • Is this an hour for temporal affairs, ha?†   (source)
  • The love that attracts us to what's eternal Does not stop our love for the merely temporal.†   (source)
  • That insures us a temporal, but this an eternal happiness.†   (source)
  • Me, poor man—my library Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties He thinks me now incapable; confederates,— So dry he was for sway,—wi' th' King of Naples To give him annual tribute, do him homage; Subject his coronet to his crown, and bend The dukedom, yet unbow'd—alas, poor Milan!†   (source)
  • Not with fond shekels of the tested gold, Or stones, whose rates are either rich or poor As fancy values them: but with true prayers, That shall be up at heaven, and enter there, Ere sunrise: prayers from preserved souls, From fasting maids, whose minds are dedicate To nothing temporal.†   (source)
  • These be generally alms or works of charity of them that have temporal riches or discretion in counselling.†   (source)
  • …death for Man, as many as offered life Neglect not, and the benefit embrace By faith not void of works: This God-like act Annuls thy doom, the death thou shouldest have died, In sin for ever lost from life; this act Shall bruise the head of Satan, crush his strength, Defeating Sin and Death, his two main arms; And fix far deeper in his head their stings Than temporal death shall bruise the victor's heel, Or theirs whom he redeems; a death, like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.†   (source)
  • To which I know not what they can answer, unlesse they will say, they walke Definitive, not Circumscriptive, or Spiritually, not Temporally: for such egregious distinctions are equally applicable to any difficulty whatsoever.†   (source)
  • Wherefore us ought as well in the death of our children, as in the loss of our goods temporal, have patience.†   (source)
  • Though't be temporal, Yet, if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce It from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance panging As soul and body's severing.†   (source)
  • It raises him up to greater grandeur That he has renounced all wealth by his pure Detachment from the merely temporal And his powerful love for the Eternal.†   (source)
  • That refined degree of Platonic affection which is absolutely detached from the flesh, and is, indeed, entirely and purely spiritual, is a gift confined to the female part of the creation; many of whom I have heard declare (and, doubtless, with great truth), that they would, with the utmost readiness, resign a lover to a rival, when such resignation was proved to be necessary for the temporal interest of such lover.†   (source)
  • Of orisons ye shall understand, that orisons or prayers is to say a piteous will of heart, that redresseth it in God, and expresseth it by word outward, to remove harms, and to have things spiritual and durable, and sometimes temporal things.†   (source)
  • *expense Thou blamest Christ, and sayst full bitterly, He misdeparteth* riches temporal; *allots amiss Thy neighebour thou witest* sinfully, *blamest And sayst, thou hast too little, and he hath all: "Parfay (sayst thou) sometime he reckon shall, When that his tail shall *brennen in the glede*, *burn in the fire* For he not help'd the needful in their need."†   (source)
  • Remember you upon the patient Job, when he had lost his children and his temporal substance, and in his body endured and received full many a grievous tribulation, yet said he thus: 'Our Lord hath given it to me, our Lord hath bereft it me; right as our Lord would, right so be it done; blessed be the name of our Lord."†   (source)
  • As to the causes of the wrong done to him, she holds that God, the causer of all things, has permitted him to suffer because he has drunk so much honey <4> of sweet temporal riches, and delights, and honours of this world, that he is drunken, and has forgotten Jesus Christ his Saviour; the three enemies of mankind, the flesh, the fiend, and the world, have entered his heart by the windows of his body, and wounded his soul in five places — that is to say, the deadly sins that have…†   (source)
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