Both Uses
temporal
in
The Road, by McCarthy
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- The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.
*temporal = earthly
- To hear it you will need a frontal lobe and things with names like colliculus and temporal gyrus and you won't have them anymore.†
Definitions:
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(temporal as in: temporal and spacial boundaries) having to do with time
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(temporal as in: temporal world) concerned with the material (in contrast to the spiritual) world
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In medicine, temporal refers to a part of the human skull near the temples (as in temporal lobe or temporal artery). A comprehensive dictionary will have other less common and more specialized definitions.